The Fall of Berlin

A photographic history of Nazi Germany’s last days: “The images are well chosen—this reviewer cannot recall having seen any before.” — The NYMAS Review By March 1945, the Red Army had closed in on Berlin. Marshal Zhukov, with almost a million soldiers and 20,000 tanks and guns at his disposal, launched his assault of the Seelow Heights. While costly, with 30,000 Russians killed, it brought the Russian Army to the gates of the capital. On April 20, Hitler’s fifty-sixth birthday, Soviet artillery