The Bitter End: The Final Battles on the Eastern Front in World War II

As Hitler’s empire crumbled, the Eastern Front became a crucible of destruction-this is the definitive account of its final, brutal months. The world had never seen anything like the Eastern Front in World War II.In the so-called bloodlands between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union-from the Baltic in the north to the Balkans, the Crimea, and the Caucasus in the south-the two sides clashed in a series of titanic campaigns that involved millions of soldiers and entangled many more civilians.During the war’s last year, the Eastern Front descended into cataclysm as the Red Army forced the Germans into retreat and collapse.The Bitter End chronicles this chaotic final stage of World War II, distilling a sprawling conflict into a concise and highly readable narrative. In concert with the American and British invasion of Normandy in the West, the Soviets launched the war’s endgame with Operation Bagration in June 1944 and crushed the German center.It was Barbarossa in reverse as the Red Army k