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Berlin

The Downfall 1945

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Berlin

By: Antony Beevor
Narrated by: Peter Noble
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Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Berlin by Antony Beevor, read by Peter Nobel.

Berlin: The Downfall: 1945 is Antony Beevor's brilliant account of the fall of the Third Reich.

The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political instructors rammed home the message of Wehrmacht and SS brutality. The result was the most terrifying example of fire and sword ever known, with tanks crushing refugee columns under their tracks, mass rape, pillage and destruction.

Hundreds of thousands of women and children froze to death or were massacred because Nazi Party chiefs, refusing to face defeat, had forbidden the evacuation of civilians. Over seven million fled westwards from the terror of the Red Army.

Antony Beevor reconstructs the experiences of those millions caught up in the nightmare of the Third Reich's final collapse, telling a terrible story of pride, stupidity, fanaticism, revenge and savagery, but also one of astonishing endurance, self-sacrifice and survival against all odds.

©2007 Antony Beevor (P)2017 Penguin Audio Europe Germany Military Russia Western Europe Revenge Imperialism War Survival Scary Thought-Provoking Holocaust Suspenseful Soviet Union Red army

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Great narration and some truly terrible atrocities committed by the red army as revenge for the German ones in Russia. A detailed description of events and a hard listen at times. Well narrated by Peter Noble.

Horrific events

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Wonderful insight into the mindset of all those involved. Eternally grateful that the sheer evil of National Socialism and it's hatred of other races was defeated.

Thought provoking.

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Descriptive concise and heavily factual terrific listen, really brings The Downfall to life. Antony Beevors military history books are a joy.

Fantastic book very informative and pulls no punch

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I’m not reading Beevor’s work in release order so after the disappointing book on Market Garden this was a pleasant surprise. The events leading up to the fall of the third Reich are well told in this fascinating account of an often neglected part of WW2 in the west.

Great

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fascinating and interesting to compare Russian army culture and discipline during the second world war and now in Ukraine

fascinating

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Very well researched and narrated. found the detail fascinating and description of suffering at times hard to hear. The futility of the destruction wrought on Germany is almost beyond belief.

Journey to self destruction.

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An excellent account of the Battle of Berlin, very well researched and well read by Peter Noble.

Berlin: The Downfall

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The narrator was excellent. I love how the book is structured from the big events down to smaller devastating details and personal moments. It is a harrowing narrative on all sides.

10/10 Narrator, 10/10 Writer.

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This well researched book is full of horrendous detail. It is very well read. A must if interested in WWII.

War and horror

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A compelling and brutal history. Wonderfully narrated by Peter Noble. I found the hypocrisy relating to the rape of civilians in war, on both sides, nauseous, and especially the so called, redefinition of rape to suit the leaders.

Megalomaniac and hubris defined

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