'Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' Jeremy Paxman

Educated at Winchester and Sandhurst, Antony Beevor served in the British Army for five years. He then lived and worked in Paris for two years where he wrote his first novel. His works of non-fiction have included Paris After the Liberation, The Spanish Civil War and Crete. He is best known for Stalingrad which became an international number one bestseller.

Berlin in the New Year; The "House of Cards" on the Vistula; Fire and sword and "Noble Fury"; The great winter offensive; The charge to the Oder; East and west; Clearing the rear areas; Pomerania and the Oder bridgeheads; Objective Berlin; The Kamarilla and the general staff; Preparing the coup de grace; Waiting for the onslaught; Americans on the Elbe; Eve of battle; Zhukov on the Reitwein Spur; Seelow and the spree; The Fuhrer's last birthday; The flight of the golden pheasants; The bombarded city; False hopes; Fighting in the city; Fighting in the forest; The betrayal of the will; Fuhrerdammerung; Reich chancellery and Reichstag; The end of the battle; Vae Victis!; The man on the white horse.