Cover art for Hitler's Final Fortress-Breslau 1945
Published
Pen And Sword, January 2012
ISBN
9781848845152
Format
Softcover, 288 pages
Dimensions
23.4cm × 15.6cm

Hitler's Final Fortress-Breslau 1945

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In January 1945, the Red Army unleashed its long-awaited thrust into Germany with terrible fury. One by one the provinces and great cities of the German East were captured by the Soviet troops. Breslau, capital of Silesia, a city of 600,000 people stood firm and was declared a fortress by Hitler.

A bitter struggle raged as the Red Army encircled Breslau, then tried to pummel it into submission while the city's Nazi leadership used brutal methods to keep the scratch German troops fighting and maintain order. Aided by supplies flown in nightly and building improvised weapons from torpedoes mounted on trolleys to an armoured train, the men of Fortress Breslau held out against superior Soviet forces for three months. The price was fearful. By the time Breslau surrendered on May 6, 1945, four days after Berlin had fallen, 25,000 soldiers and civilians were dead, the city a wasteland. Breslau was pillaged, its women raped and every German inhabitant driven out of the city which became Wroclaw in post-war Poland. Based on official documents, newspapers, letters, diaries and personal testimonies, this is the bitter story of Hitler's Final Fortress. AUTHOR: Richard Hargreaves is a journalist. His previously published books include The Germans in Normandy and Blitzkrieg Unleashed. SELLING POINTS: . First full length account of the notorious siege of Breslau in English . Breslau held out against overwhelming Soviet forces for four months . Savage retribution was visited on the survivors by the Russians . Superbly researched and written by the best selling author of Germans in Normandy ILLUSTRATIONS: 16 pages of b/w plates

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