Osprey: Battleground Prussia

Osprey 9781849081900

Osprey: Battleground Prussia
The Assault on Germany’s Eastern Front 1944–45
Author: Prit Buttar

About this book
In September 1944 the Soviet Army poured into German territory, flooding the martial heartland of the Reich, Prussia. Hopelessly outnumbered by the human wave of the Red Army, the Wehrmacht fought on with determination, but was gradually beaten back. This book describes the great battles that marked the Soviet conquest of Prussia, from Memel to Königsberg, the Heiligenbeil Pocket to Danzig. Using accounts never before published in English, Prit Buttar looks at the campaign both from a command level, and from the perspective of normal soldiers on the front line.
Contents

* Preface
* Introduction: the Slavs and the Teutons
* 1 Fritz and Ivan: The Opposing Forces
* 2 Memel
* 3 Nemmersdorf
* 4 The Last Christmas
* 5 The Offensive Begins
* 6 Cherniakhovsky and the Pregel Valley
* 7 Rokossovsky reaches the Coast
* 8 Break out to the West
* 9 Evacuation
* 10 Across the Vistula
* 11 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
* 12Konigsberg
* 13 Danzig
* 14 The Last Command
* 15 The Long Road Home
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index

Hardback; September 2010; 512 pages; ISBN: 9781849081900