About this title: On the night of January 11, 1945, fog, low clouds, and blizzards reduced visibility at times to literally zero along the Sandomierz bridgehead. So the German troops did not notice tanks, assault guns, and towed artillery pieces moving in position by the thousands along the east bankthe Russian sideof the Vistula River. Within seconds after the order to fire was given by the Soviet commander, General Konev, the air became incandescent with unnatural light. A sky of fire and smoke lowered over the country across the river: Houses flared up like torches, bunkers collapsed, roads were broken ...
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Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum, New York
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780689120923ISBN:0689120923
Description: Very Good in Near Fine jacket. First edition. 403 pages, illustrated with 14 maps, appendix: the conduct of wwar: Soviet science and German art; bibliography, index. VG+ copy [light staining to the spine heel, upper corner creasing to a few pages] in Near Fine Dust Wrapper. read more
Description: Good in Good dust jacket; 1991. 0689120923. Lightly used, mild wear at binding edges from handling-unmarked. Nice, used copy. DJ improved with new, clear mylar cover.; Hardcover; Atheneum; NY; First Printing; Large 8vo 9"-10" tall; 403 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Castle Books 2002
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780785816249ISBN:0785816240
Description: ISBN 0785816240. Hardback. Very Good condition book in a Very Good condition dustjacket with minor rubs and creases around its edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. Reprint edition. read more
Description: Very Good/Very Good. 0785816240 A near-fine copy, clean, tight. Jacket has one tiny ding on spine end and two on top edge. 403pp. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum, New York
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780689120923ISBN:0689120923
Description: Near Fine/Near Fine. 0689120923 Bound in red boards with black cloth spine. First printing. Narrow plastic name and date label to front pastedown. No other markings. Clean and tight. Subtitled: "The Soviet March on Germany 1945". Jacket is not price-clipped. 403pp including index. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780689120923ISBN:0689120923
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. Very Good Copy. Hardcover, No Dust jacket, Text is clean and unmarked. binding is tight, with wear, and bumping to corners. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 403 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Card cover. fine. World War II-General The Soviet offensive, January to April 1945-the campaign that destroyed the German Army on the Eastern Front and ended with the conquest of Berlin. It was a campaign of unprecedented scale. German determination and Soviet errors halted the drive in February, gaining a few extra months for the Reich. The author researched archives in Moscow, and cross-referenced these with contemporary German accounts. UL-131204. X11 401pp 14 maps. read more
Binding: First
Publisher: Atheneum, New York
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780689120923ISBN:0689120923
Description: very good, very good. 24 cm, 403, maps. By quoting extensively from the memoirs of Soviet and German commanders and the diaries of infantrymen, this book brings to life not only the Russian military assault on the historic lands of Germany, but also the human drama. read more
"What a wonderful as well heartbreaking book about the final days of the Third Reich. Full of rich details and great summary of forces launched against the bulwarks of the Reich."
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