My latest book is Berlin by Anthony Beevor, the same author who wrote Stalingrad. As for that book this one is really good, the author is well known for weaving together the basic facts with personal histories. What I did not know, and found the most shocking fact was the huge amount of women that was raped by the Red Army on their way from Russia to Berlin and how the leaders of the Red Army ignored it. For Stalin found the “worst” threat to be that Russian soldiers should get “western thoughts”.
I especially found the last pages of the book very good, where he wraps up how many of the Wehrmacht generals (and others) refused to admit that what they had done was wrong. Instead they tried to explain what they could have done otherwise to win the war. For instance, some said it was wrong to start a war on two fronts, if they had not, they could have beaten the Bolsheviks…
