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...LAST BATTLE, by Cornelius Ryan. With meticulous detail, Author Ryan (The Longest Day) paints an exciting, often terrifying account of the final death agonies of Berlin and Hitler's Third Reich during World...
Died. Pierre J. Huss, 63, longtime Hearst byliner who catalogued the Third Reich from Hitler's early rise to the final justice of Niirnberg, at first failing to recognize the true Nazi intent and reporting, one month after the invasion of Poland and seven months before the blitzkrieg through Belgium and The Netherlands, that Germany had "no aim to wage a war of offense," but later scooping fellow newsmen on the Hitler-Eva Braun suicide pact and becoming one of the best spotters of Communist subterfuge during a 20-year stint at the United Nations; of a heart attack...
This mighty bombardment, never before equaled on the eastern front, began at precisely 4 a.m., Monday, April 16, 1945. History records it as the beginning of the battle for Berlin, the final assault against the capital of Hitler's Reich. As this thoroughly researched and often exciting book makes clear, Berlin was a fortress only in Hitler's fevered imagination. Incredibly, there was no plan to protect Berlin against attack, no defenses worth mentioning, and very few troops...
...commercial, with large letters, bold designs, and slick paper." Germany, with a long tradition in fine printing and book design, has made valuable contributions to jacket art, but recent jackets are increasingly American in style. Postwar jackets up to 1950 reveal Germany's sense of guilt for the Third Reich. Trying to forget the implications of the Gothic type-faces ordered by Hitler, German artists turned to whimsical designs with floral patterns and bright pastels...
...Fear and Misery of the Third Reich is less a formal play than a collection of twenty-four scenes of life in the first half-decade of the "Thousand-Year Reich" -- nine of the vignettes were cut out of this production. Not all of the episodes are little masterpieces, but at its best the play, with its violent juxtapositions of theatrical styles, is a nightmare vision of the author's homeland going off its collective...