The Reckoning av Prit Buttar

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<p><b>Now available in paperback, this book tells the </b><b>detailed and engrossing account of the fighting in Ukraine in 1944, making use of the extensive memoirs of German and Russian soldiers involved in the fighting, as well as partisans behind the German lines, to bring the story to life.</b><br><b><i><br>''The Reckoning</i> is vivid history, the tragic Eastern Front brought to life through the widest range of Russian and German sources I''ve ever read. Bravo.'' </b>¿<b> Peter Caddick-Adams, author and broadcaster</b><br><br>By the end of 1944 the Red Army was poised on the very frontiers of the Third Reich. How had the once unstoppable, mighty Wehrmacht faltered so disastrously? Certainly it had suffered defeats before, in particular the vast catastrophe of Stalingrad, but it was in 1944 that the war was ultimately lost. It was no longer a case of if but rather when the Red Army would be at the gates of Berlin.<br><br>Prit Buttar retraces the ebb and flow of the various battles