The End Of War

by David L . Robbins (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2000

  $6.11

  In the final months of the Second World War, one strategic question above all occupies the Allies: which liberating army will be the first to march into Berlin. On the western front, Montgomery lobbies for the honour, while Eisenhower becomes more and more determined to thwart him and put an American general -- Bradley or Patton -- in charge of the final thrust; in the east, Stalin's armies advance steadily and ruthlessly towards the apotheosis of their vengeance. David L. Robbins orchestrates the story of the final months of war through the eyes of a gallery of characters both invented and real. We see the western front through the eyes of an American war photographer; Berlin through a mother and daughter hiding a Jewish refugee in the cellar of their house; the eastern advance through soldiers in a punishment battalion, whose fate is to lead every assault. This is another brilliantly authentic and compulsively readable war novel, a worthy successor to WAR OF THE RATS.

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  Paperback
  2001

  $3.38

  In the final months of World War Two, the Western Allies close in on the last prize of the war - Berlin. One question burns in the mind of every soldier, and in the hearts of the Allied leaders: who will take Berlin? On the Western front, Roosevelt and Eisenhower confront their counterparts, Churchill and Montgomery, over who will lead the thrust into the Nazi capital. In the East, Josef Stalin's armies advance ruthlessly towards their moment of vengeance. The End of War is an epic novel of courage, combat and cunning at the highest levels of history, portraying the race for Berlin through a myriad of perspectives: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, an American photojournalist in the vanguard of the action, a Soviet soldier busted to a punishment brigade, and a female cellist under the bombs in doomed Berlin.