Battleground Prussia, Prit Buttar
Battleground Prussia, Prit Buttar
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Battleground Prussia
The Assault on Germany’s Eastern Front 1944-45

Author: Prit Buttar

Narrator: Nigel Patterson

Unabridged: 23 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/22/2019

Synopsis

The terrible months between the arrival of the Red Army on German soil and the final collapse of Hitler's regime were like no other in the Second World War. The Soviet Army's intent to take revenge for the horror that the Nazis had wreaked on their people produced a conflict of implacable brutality in which millions perished.

From the great battles that marked the Soviet conquest of East and West Prussia to the final surrender in the Vistula estuary, this book recounts in chilling detail the desperate struggle of soldiers and civilians alike. These brutal campaigns are brought vividly to life by a combination of previously unseen testimony and astute strategic analysis recognizing a conflict of unprecedented horror and suffering.

About Prit Buttar

Prit Buttar studied medicine at Oxford and London before joining the British Army as a doctor. After leaving the army, he worked as a GP, first near Bristol and then in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. He appeared from time to time on local and national TV and radio, speaking on a variety of medical issues, and contributed regularly to the medical press.

An established expert on the Eastern Front in 20th-century military history, Buttar's books include the critically acclaimed Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944-45 and Between Giants: The Battle for the Baltics in World War II and a definitive four-part series on the Eastern Front in World War I which concluded with The Splintered Empires: The Eastern Front 1917-21. He lives in Kirkcudbright, Scotland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by 'Aussie Rick' on November 10, 2010

This is a very good account of the Russian offensives into Prussia during the final stages of WW2. The book is well researched and full of first-hand accounts from German soldiers and civilians plus a few from Russian soldiers who were involved in the fighting. There are a number of B&W photograph’s......more

Goodreads review by Jack on December 09, 2017

Ahhh-the titanic battles of WWII's Eastern Front. The time is from the end of Operation Bagration till the end of Nazi Germany. The setting Prussia, Silesia, Pomerania, and the Eastern portion of Germany. I still marvel at the troop numbers on opposing sides. The overwhelming Soviet Armies pitted ag......more

Goodreads review by Themistocles on April 24, 2018

This is a dense, analytical and very interesting book. I really enjoyed reading it, but only give it 3 stars because of a few serious niggles: -the text is a mixture of very vivid, very interesting and oftentimes moving personal reports with rather arduous descriptions of battle orders and unit movem......more

Goodreads review by Michael on August 19, 2014

Using this one for serious research, I'm struck by a number of things. The prose is good, but that probably means the book is more intended for light reading than a researcher. The map coverage is mostly terrible. Whoever designed the maps has confused standard NATO symbols for "battalion" with "divi......more

Goodreads review by Craig on November 20, 2020

This part of the second world war has been largely ignored by historians in favour of the bagration and Berlin offenses so to see a full book on it is rare (certainly in the the UK anyway) but this is not an easy read. Some of that may have been due to the kindle formatting which meant you could not......more

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