Berlin: The Downfall 1945

Wolf, Markus, 214, 373, 417–18

Wolff, SS-Obergpfh. Karl, 142, 144, 194

Wolfsschanze HQ 6, 7, 96–8

Woltersdorf, 240, 248

Wriezen, 134, 242, 243, 246

Y

Yalta conference, 20, 77–82, 83, 99, 100, 143, 364, 420

Yermakov, Maj. Gen. I. P., 328

Yushchuk, Maj. Gen. I.I., 235–6

Z

Zavenyagin, Gen. Avraami, 324, 325

Zehlendorf, 232

Zerbst, 203, 232, 284

Zhadov, Gen. A. S., 239, 245

Zhukov, Marshal G. K., 15, 16, 18, 21, 26, 44, 63, 64, 65, 87, 88

and Poland, 99

and Pomeranian campaign, 115–16

summoned to Moscow by Stalin, 136–7

and ‘Berlin operation’, 144–5, 146–7, 165, 186, 206

and arrest of Polish leaders, 195

and battle for see low Heights, 216–23, 226, 227, 228, 229–30, 235, 242, 243, 269

and rivalry with Konev, 222, 230, 232, 242, 255, 256, 265, 296, 319

and battle for Berlin, 255, 268, 269, 319, 384

and surrender, 368, 369, 403, 404–5

and death of Hitler, 389, 399, 400, 426, 428

and Red Army discipline, 413

and Stalin, 425, 426, 427, 428

Ziegler, SS-Brigfh. Joachim, 241, 242, 269, 291, 292, 301–2, 366, 382, 383

Zoo flak tower and bunker, 2, 268, 282, 287, 340, 355, 356, 372–3, 384, 391–2, 394

Praise for Antony Beevor’s BERLIN

‘The outstanding piece of non-fiction this year. His last book, Stalingrad was, I thought, as good as it gets. But Berlin is even better. If you ever needed reminding of why war is something we should move heaven and earth to avoid, this will do it’.

Jeremy Paxman, Guardian

‘Once you’ve read it, it’ll stay with you forever. What a book!’

Barbara Trapido, Observer

‘Beevor tells the savage, gripping story of the fall of the city with brilliance and a humane attention to the impact of an epic battle on fragile, individual lives. His powerful account lays bare the nightmarish sordidness of German fascism, with its back to the wall, buying a few more days at the expense of thousands of lives’.

Helen Dunmore, The Times

‘Antony Beevor has become justly celebrated for Stalingrad, and his new book, Berlin: The Downfall 1945, lives up to all his fans’ expectations. Beevor has explored Russian and German sources with his customary industry, to produce a gripping and harrowing narrative of the city’s fall to the Red Army in 1945’.

Max Hastings, Sunday Telegraph

‘Essential reading’.

Michael Howard, The Times Literary Supplement

‘This is a brilliantly researched book, all the more effective because of Beevor’s spare and unemotional style’.

Sue McGregor, Daily Telegraph

‘The narrative onslaught of Beevor’s book is tremendous’.

Iain Finlayson, The Times

‘An appalling and gripping story’.

Margaret Macmillan, Sunday Telegraph

‘I read it like a novel… it does make you feel as if you know what it might have been like to be there’.

Anne Applebaum, Evening Standard

‘The style contributes to the account itself, a masterful mixture of narrative finesse and scrupulousness towards the facts. In both categories we are witnessing an author at the height of his art’.

Thomas Kielinger, Die Welt

‘The best of five exemplary works of history is Beevor’s Berlin. The story has been told many times, but Beevor brings a distinctive combination of gifts to it. Not merely is he a lucid chronicler of military tactics, strategy and maneuvers, but he has a sympathetic eye for the ordinary people who became war’s innocent victims — in this case the uncountable thousands of women who were raped and brutalized by the Red Army as it raced to the prize that was Berlin’.

Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post

‘Riveting, magnificent — masterly but shocking. It simply makes [all previous histories] obsolete at a stroke’.

Independent

‘Beevor gives an exceptionally clear account of complicated military movements and the reasoning of the