Hitler's Final Fortress - Breslau 1945

First published in Great Britain in 2011 by

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Copyright © Richard Hargreaves, 2011

ISBN 978 1 84884 515 2

eISBN 9781844686315

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Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Maps

Prologue: The Square

1      The Happy Fusion

2      The Bridgehead

3      God Has Washed His Hands of this World

4      The Reckoning Has Begun

5      In Defiance of Death and the Devil

6      The Breslau Method

7      The Old Breslau Is No More

8      Any Further Sacrifice Is a Crime

9      The Land of the Dead

10    Quiet Flows the Oder

Appendix

Bibliography