Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin-最后一场战役：柏林战役的经典历史

作者：Cornelius Ryan

书名：Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin《最后一场战役：柏林战役的经典历史》

中文简介：柏林战役(又称柏林冲锋战)是第二次世界大战中欧洲战场上的最后一场重大战役。大量苏联红军在东方进攻柏林，这场战役发生于1945年4月尾至5月初。在这场战役终结前，阿道夫·希特勒自杀。纳粹德国在这场战役结束后，5月8日，签署无条件投降协议，宣示纳粹德国正式覆亡，象征了第二次世界大战中欧洲战事的结束。
 
英文简介：The classic account of the final offensive against Hitler's Third Reich.

The Battle for Berlin was the culminating struggle of World War II in the European theater, the last offensive against Hitler's Third Reich, which devastated one of Europe's historic capitals and marked the final defeat of Nazi Germany. It was also one of the war's bloodiest and most pivotal battles, whose outcome would shape international politics for decades to come.

The Last Battle is Cornelius Ryan's compelling account of this final battle, a story of brutal extremes, of stunning military triumph alongside the stark conditions that the civilians of Berlin experienced in the face of the Allied assault. As always, Ryan delves beneath the military and political forces that were dictating events to explore the more immediate imperatives of survival, where, as the author describes it, “to eat had become more important than to love, to burrow more dignified than to fight, to exist more militarily correct than to win.”

The Last Battle is the story of ordinary people, both soldiers and civilians, caught up in the despair, frustration, and terror of defeat. It is history at its best, a masterful illumination of the effects of war on the lives of individuals, and one of the enduring works on World War II.