The Fall of Berlin 1945

If you are already somewhat familiar with the major players in the Soviet and German armies in 1945, then you will love this book. For me, it was hard to keep straight which name or unit name was associated with the Soviets and which with the Germans and, obviously, that made it hard to keep up. Last week I read the “anonymous” diary of a German woman in Berlin during that time period and her book was much more interesting to me. This spends most of its time talking about troop movements. It gives lots of detail about the positioning of both armies during the last stages of the war. The most interesting part to me was to see how Stalin was lying to the Americans ... just as Putin is lying to our president-elect today, unfortunately.