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The Fall of Hitler's Fortress City

The Battle for Knigsberg, 1945

by Isabel Denny
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"A superb portrait of a forgotten but vital World War II battle of strategic importance and bestial savagery" (Simon Sebag Montefiore, New York Times–bestselling author of The Romanovs)
Through firsthand accounts, as well as archival material, The Fall of Hitler's Fortress City tells the dramatic story of the place and people that bore the brunt of Russia's vengeance against the Nazi regime.
In 1945, in the face of the advancing Red Army, two and a half million people were forced out of Germany's most easterly province, East Prussia, and in particular its capital, Königsberg. Their flight was a direct result of Hitler's ill-fated decision to invade the Soviet Union in 1941.
The Russians launched Operation Bagration in June 1944, to coincide with the D-Day landings. As US and British forces pushed west, the Russians liberated Eastern Europe and made their first attacks on German soil in the autumn of 1944. Königsberg itself was badly damaged by two British air raids at the end of August 1944, and the main offensive against the city by the Red Army began in January 1945. The depleted and poorly armed German army could do little to hold it back, and by the end of January, East Prussia was cut off. The Russians exacted a terrible revenge on the civilian population, who were forced to flee across the freezing Baltic coast in an attempt to escape. On April 9, the city surrendered to the Russians after a four-day onslaught.
"Denny fills in a gap in the historiography of World War II's European eastern front." —Booklist

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    October 19, 2009

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