{"product_id":"the-conquest-of-the-reich-d-day-to-ve-day-a-soldiers-history-9780814757895","title":"The Conquest of the Reich: D-Day to Ve Day--A Soldiers' History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe defeat of Nazi Germany in the words of those who were there\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNew Year's Day 1945 was not a day for rest or rejoicing on the embattled continent of Europe. Hard winter gripped the land, from the Channel coast to the distant Urals. Only the thought of victory warmed the frozen soldiers huddled in tanks and foxholes as the New Year dawned and they faced the prospect of battling onwards toward Berlin. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the story of the last five months of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich, from New Year's Day to VE Day, May 8, 1945. It is a story told not in the words of historians or scholars, but in the words of the people who lived through it, who fought and endured: soldier and civilian, American infantryman and British paratrooper, Canadian gunner and Australian pilot, New Zealand POW and German civilian. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith his unrivaled gift for popular history, Robin Neillands, in his follow-up to the enormously successful \u003ci\u003eD-Day 1944\u003c\/i\u003e, recreates in engaging narrative fashion the most dramatic and bloody months of the war. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, letters, and inside eyewitness testimony from veterans about such subjects as the esprit de corps in the Allied and Axis armies, the discovery of the concentration camps, the dissension in the Allied command, and the meeting of Russians and Americans at the Elbe, the book recounts the effects of many of the most crucial events of the conflict on soldier and citizen alike. The Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of Auschwitz, the Malmedy Massacres, the fall of Warsaw to the Red Army, the destruction of Dresden, the lynching of Allied aircrews, Yalta, Hitler's Scorched Earth directive, the massive parachutes drops by the Allied forces, the death of Roosevelt, the last days of Hitler, and, finally, the surrender of Germany--it's all here, rendered in engrossing and rich detail in this example of military history at its finest. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor a comprehensive and thrilling account of the end of World War II, \u003cb\u003eThe Conquest of the Reich\u003c\/b\u003e will stand as the definitive people's history for years to come.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robin Neillands\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 6.04w x 1.01d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814757895\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNeillands, Robin:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Author of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eD-Day: 1944\u003c\/i\u003e and Conquest of the Reich (also available from NYU Press), \u003cb\u003eRobin Neillands\u003c\/b\u003e served in 45 Commando, Royal Marines, and has extensive contacts with special force units the world over. He lives in England.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40183701635187,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":28.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_e427be36-c73d-4512-a8a2-beb825dcdb4b.jpg?v=1655558208","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-conquest-of-the-reich-d-day-to-ve-day-a-soldiers-history-9780814757895","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}