Picture 1 of 1

Stock photo

Bloody Streets: The Soviet Assault on Berlin by Hamilton NEW - Picture 1 of 1

Bloody Streets : The Soviet Assault on Berlin by A. Stephan Hamilton (2020, Hardcover)

Aberdeen Bookstore (31413)

100% positive feedback

Price:

$165.00

+ $8.50 shipping

Estimated delivery Thu, Oct 16 - Mon, Oct 20

Returns:

30 days returns. Buyer pays for return shipping. If you use an eBay shipping label, it will be deducted from your refund amount.

Condition:

Brand New

They don't normally put the price on the jacket for the publisher's edition, but most of them do use full or partial cloth binding, whereas the bookclub edition will be simply cheap board covers. All books are entirely in English unless noted otherwise.

About this product

Product Identifiers

PublisherHelion & Company, The Limited

ISBN-101912866137

ISBN-139781912866137

eBay Product ID (ePID)23038576024

Product Key Features

Book TitleBloody Streets : the Soviet Assault on Berlin

Number of PagesIII, 511 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicMilitary / World War II, World

Publication Year2020

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory

AuthorA. Stephan Hamilton

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Length12 in

Item Width8.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsNow available in this revised second edition. Using previously unpublished German, Russian, and Allied first person accounts, as well as primary sources, photographs and aerial imagery, it brings to life the largest urban assault in history. All aspects of the battle are covered, with new insights into how it was planned and executed. This lavishly illustrated second edition, now in two volumes - the second volume containing high quality maps and aerial photos - uniquely presents a day-by-day account of fighting throughout the city's ruins in detail. A most excellent title that can only be highly recommended., ...uniquely presents a day by day account of the tactical fighting throughout the city's ruins in greater detail than previously published... a complete picture of the urban combat that ensued in the bloody streets of Berlin.

Dewey Decimal940.54213155

SynopsisOn April 16th, 1945 the Red Army launched their fourth largest offensive along the Eastern Front during World War II. The objective was to seize Berlin before the Western Allies.Sixteen days later, the former capital of the Third Reich fell to the conquering armies of Generals Georgi Zhukov and his rival Ivan Koniev. The cost to capture the largest urban complex on mainland Europe from a handful of understrength Heer and Waffen-SS divisions, supported by Volkssturm and Hitlerjugend formations armed mainly with Panzerfaust anti-armour rockets, was exceptionally high. The Red Army suffered more casualties among its soldiers than during the six month siege of Stalingrad, and it lost more armoured vehicles than during the Battle of Kursk.Total losses among the defenders and civilian population remain unknown. Central Berlin was left a wasteland. The scars of the street fighting are still visible today, seventy-five years after the battle.When Bloody Streets was first published in 2008 it detailed the tactical street fighting in Berlin day-by-day for the first time through vivid first person accounts and period aerial imagery of the city. Ten years later this ground breaking study is back in print completely revised. Previously unpublished first person accounts from both the German and Soviet perspectives supplement archival documents that include new data from the operational war diaries of the 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian Fronts. The book is highly illustrated throughout with period images of the city, aerial overviews, and wartime photos.Building on more than 15 years of research, the second edition of Bloody Streets is a capstone to the author's prior works on the final climatic battles along the Eastern Front. It will remain a benchmark study of the Battle of Berlin for years to come., On April 16th, 1945 the Red Army launched their fourth largest offensive along the Eastern Front during World War II. The objective was to seize Berlin before the Western Allies.Sixteen days later, the former capital of the Third Reich fell to the conquering armies of Generals Georgi Zhukov and his rival Ivan Koniev. The cost to capture the largest urban complex on mainland Europe from a handful of under-strength Heer and Waffen-SS divisions, supported by Volkssturm and Hitlerjugend formations armed mainly with Panzerfaust anti-armor rockets, was exceptionally high. The Red Army suffered more casualties among its soldiers than during the six month siege of Stalingrad, and it lost more armored vehicles than during the Battle of Kursk.Total losses among the defenders and civilian population remain unknown. Central Berlin was left a wasteland. The scars of the street fighting are still visible today, seventy-five years after the battle.When Bloody Streets was first published in 2008 it detailed the tactical street fighting in Berlin day-by-day for the first time through vivid first person accounts and period aerial imagery of the city. Ten years later this ground breaking study is back in print completely revised. Previously unpublished first person accounts from both the German and Soviet perspectives supplement archival documents that include new data from the operational war diaries of the 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian Fronts. The book is highly illustrated throughout with period images of the city, aerial overviews, and wartime photos.Building on more than 15 years of research, the second edition of Bloody Streets is a capstone to the author's prior works on the final climatic battles along the Eastern Front. It will remain a benchmark study of the Battle of Berlin for years to come., On April 16th, 1945 the Red Army launched their fourth largest offensive along the Eastern Front during World War II. The objective was to seize Berlin before the Western Allies.Sixteen days later, the former capital of the Third Reich fell to the conquering armies of Generals Georgi Zhukov and his rival Ivan Koniev. The cost to capture the large

LC Classification NumberD757.9.B4H25 2020