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1、U.S.$29.95Canada$43.99(continuedfromfromflap)AntonyBeevor,usingoftendevastatingnewmater-heRedArmyhadmuchtoavengewhenialfromformerSovietfiles,aswellasfromGerman,itfinallyreachedthefrontiersoftheAmerican,British,FrenchandSwedisharchives,hasReichinJanuary1945.Frenzi
2、edbytheirreconstructedtheexperiencesofthosemillionsterribleexperienceswithWehrmachtandcaughtupinthenightmareoftheThirdReich'sfinalSSbrutality,theywreakedhavoc-tankscrushingcollapse.TheFallofBerlin1945isaterriblestoryrefugeecolumnsundertheirtracks,massrape,pil-ofp
3、ride,stupidity,fanaticism,revengeandsavagery,lageanddestruction.Hundredsofthousandsofyetitisalsooneofastonishingendurance,self-womenandchildrenfrozetodeathorweremassa-sacrificeandsurvivalagainstallodds.credbecauseNaziPartychiefs,refusingtofacedefeat,hadforbiddent
4、heevacuationofcivilians.MorethansevenmillionfledwestwardfromtheterroroftheRedArmy.Itwasthemostterrifyingexampleoffireandswordeverknown.Withinthetrappedmass,individualsfacedanarbi-traryfate.Somesufferedappallingly,othersweresavedbyextraordinarychance.Sovietsoldier
5、sshowedbothspontaneous.generosityandinhumancrueltytoGermanwomenandchildren.TheNazisANTONYBEEVORbeganhiscareerasasentfourteen-year-oldboysonbicyclesonsuicidalprofessionalofficerinthe11thHussars.HeistheattacksagainstSoviettanks,andastheRedArmyauthorofanumberofbooks
6、,includingTheSpanishencircledBerlin,SSsquadsroamedthecity,shoot-Crete:TheCivilWar,InsidetheBritishArmyandingorhanginganymannotathispost.BattleandtheResistance.Withhiswife,ArtemisCooper,hewroteParisAftertheLiberation,Thepersonalmoralchaosthatdeterminedthelives1944
7、-1949.HisbookStalingradhasbeenpublishedofmanyGermanswasaresultofatitanicconflictinnineteenlanguagesandwasawardedthefirstbetweenthemosttyrannicalegosofthetwentiethSamuelJohnsonPrizeforNon-Fiction,theWolfsonHitler,halfcrazedinhisbunker,issuedcentury.HistoryPrizeand
8、theHawthorndenPrizeforwildordersinthemonstrousvanityofapersonalLiterature.AntonyBeevorisaFellowoftheRoyalGotterdammerung,determinedtobringdowntheSocietyofLiter