Hitler's Last Bastion: The Final Battles for the Reich 1944-1945

The final stage of the Second World War, with the enemy across the Reich’s borders, saw final desperate battles for numerous “fortified places” and blocking positions. Hitler ordered the defense of these fortified places such as Königsberg and Breslau, Wesel and Kolberg, Danzig, Posen and many others. In these isolated bastions the war—weary German units offered desperate resistance, offered for good purpose. This stubborn holding—on to the last round saved hundreds of thousands of women an...