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    Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944-45
    Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944-45
    Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944-45
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    Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944-45

    Written by Prit Buttar

    Narrated by Nigel Patterson

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    The terrible months between the arrival of the Red Army on German soil and the final collapse of Hitler's regime were like no other in the Second World War. The Soviet Army's intent to take revenge for the horror that the Nazis had wreaked on their people produced a conflict of implacable brutality in which millions perished.

    From the great battles that marked the Soviet conquest of East and West Prussia to the final surrender in the Vistula estuary, this book recounts in chilling detail the desperate struggle of soldiers and civilians alike. These brutal campaigns are brought vividly to life by a combination of previously unseen testimony and astute strategic analysis recognizing a conflict of unprecedented horror and suffering.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 22, 2019
    ISBN9781630156428
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    Prit Buttar

    Prit Buttar studied medicine at Oxford and London before joining the British Army as a doctor. After leaving the army, he worked as a GP, first near Bristol and then in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. He is extensively involved in medical politics, both at local and national level, and served on the GPs' Committee of the British Medical Association. He has appeared on national TV and radio, speaking on a variety of medical issues. He contributes regularly to the medical press. An established expert on the Eastern Front in 20th-century military history, his previous books include the critically acclaimed Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944–45 (Osprey 2010) and Between Giants: The Battle for the Baltics in World War II (Osprey 2013) and a definitive four-part series on the Eastern Front in World War I which concluded with The Splintered Empires: The Eastern Front 1917–21 (2017). He now lives in Kirkcudbright in Scotland.

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    • 3/5
      There's a reason Hollywood and television has portrayed the Eastern Front as a sinister punishment for German soldiers who are not successful enough combating the Allies in the west. With the desperation caused by lack of manpower, lack of equipment, lack of ammunition, lack of fuel, lack of food...well, you get the idea. War is hell and the Ostfront was the 9th level. No quarter was given, this phase of the war was fight or die. The created ample opportunity for heroic effort; something one can appreciate if he can separate the typical Wehrmacht soldier or officer from the Nazi degenerates who committed countless atrocities. The Germans kept very good records of troop movements and engagements, especially on the Eastern Front as there was no worse place for a dissatisfied Fuhrer to banish architects of failed operations. This is not the first book of its ilk that I've read...if you're fans of games such as Squad Leader or Combat Mission, you'll read about the human element behind some of the small-scale actions replicated in those games. The German record is largely considered to be far more accurate than Soviet accounts of the same action -- Soviet leaders were forever multiplying reports of casualties caused and even reported engagements created whole cloth from the imagination of the staff officers in an effort to appease Stalin and his staff at STAVKA; If you're particularly researching battles of this period, this book is an excellent resource. Without that purpose, however, the book is a lot of "the 2nd company of the newly formed 51st Volksgrenadier regiment was deployed to a town nobody has ever heard of and asked to hold it against 4 Soviet exploiting tank armies with nothing more than a half dozen panzerfausts and an armored Radio Flyer wagon." Well, not so silly, but after a few hundred pages of similar accounts of troop deployments, one's mind does tend to embellish.
    • 3/5
      I would like to rate this book somewhat higher than I do, in as much as the author does a rather good job of telling the intertwined narrative of the last stand of the German military in East Prussia, the demise of German society in that land and the final failures of the Nazi regime.What holds me back is that the sources seem a little shallow, the editing seems a little "off" and I do wonder a bit about any agendas Buttar might have had besides expressing sympathy over the demise of a lost world; I will look at his next work though.