HITLER VERSUS STALIN, THE EASTERN FRONT 1944-1945

From the Image of War series are rare photographs from wartime archives, from Warsaw to Berlin. This superb photographic history depicts the Eastern Front and the defeat of the German Army, the destruction and occupation of the city and humiliation of the German people in over 150 mostly unpublished wartime photos. From the Baltic in the north to the Balkans in the south, here is the tenacity and desperation of the German Resistance and the unstoppable force of the Red Army as offensive after offensive crushed the Third Reich. These pictures record the most famous episodes from the last stages of the Second World War before Warsaw was cruelly suppressed by the Nazis, the rapid advance through Romania and Hungary, the ferocity for the battle for Budapest, the conquest of East Prussia and the enormity of the last battle for Berlin. Here are Panzer tanks, Chetnik partisans who occupied a difficult position in Yugoslav partisan politics but ultimately lost the fight for control of the post-war state to Tito's communists. Here are Cossacks in German service showing off their equestrian skills, gunboats and flotillas being bombed, ruthless hangings, para-military units, fighting gliders, Soviet POWs filing past a group of severe-looking Waffen SS men, tank destroyers, mighty military airpower and railway networks of the Balkans which were less damaged by Axis sabotage than that of the USSR. These striking photographs depict the terrible consequences of Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union four years earlier. 148 pages in very large softback, hundreds of rare photos.