The Battle Of Berlin...The Most Interesting Battle of All?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUHOFc2R1WY

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtZh7ruOYMU

 

Hey, that is cool! Fred Wilson has revived the thread three years after its tailing off, with some cool videos. I found an originally-Russian video series (remade in English by a British team - Starmedia). The series is all about the war on the Russian front, from Operation Barbarossa to the Battle of Berlin. Here's the Battle of Berlin segment:

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I've read Antony Beevor's book The Battle of Berlin, and it was fascinating to me. Even though I wasn't even born until 1951, the first five months of 1945 were pretty important for me, because my wife's family was involved in trying to flee the Soviet onslaught (my wife is a few years older than I).

I mentioned in my Introduction post that I was working on two WW2-related books, and hoping that this isn't too much of a shameless plug, the first one is coming out in just a few days. It is called The Bones of My People, and is the story of my mother-in-law's capture by the Red Army in February 1945, and her subsequent experience as a forced laborer in the Ural Mountains. The book will be available on Amazon.com. It's not a very lengthy book -- the text was developed from an audio tape of my mother-in-law, made back in 1978, describing her experiences. It was quite a job converting the typed transcript (in German) into an actual book.