The Road To Berlin

John Erickson

Oct 2015 · Sold by Weidenfeld & Nicolson

About this ebook

Beginning with the destruction of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad, The Road to Berlin is the story of how the Red Army drove the Germans from its territory, and finally invaded the Reich.

Using an enormous range of primary sources - Soviet, German and Eastern European - John Erickson describes fighting and hardship on a scale almost unimaginable in the West. He provides a detailed narrative of all the battles on all the fronts, and also of the Soviet system of war which achieved, under maximum stress, near-impossible feats in the field and in the factories. The book also tells of the diplomatic moves and counter-moves, including the all-important conferences at Tehran and Yalta.

Comprehensive, compelling and immensely readable, it is an indispensable book for any student of the Second World War.

About the author

John Erickson was educated at St John's College, Cambridge and served in British Army Intelligence from 1946 to 1949. He was Fellow in Soviet Military Affairs of St Anthony's College, Oxford and Lecturer at the University of St Andrew's and the University of Manchester. He was Visiting Professor at Indiana University, Yale University, Texas A & M University and the US Army Russian Institute. He was latterly Professor and Director of the Centre for Defence Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He was the author of numerous books and articles about the Soviet Army. He contributed biographies of Soviet commanders to The Warlords (edited by Field Marshal Lord Carver) and Stalin's Generals (edited by Harold Shukman). The Road to Stalingrad, the first volume in his authoritative history of the Soviet-German war, is also available as a W&N ebook.