From Martin Dugard, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Bill
O'Reilly's Killing series, comes a nonfiction thriller about the race
between the Allies and Soviets to conquer the heart of Nazi Germany.
****"**Gripping, popular history at its page-turning best."--Alex
Kershaw - "With the precision of a smart bomb, Martin Dugard puts the
reader directly into the campaign to destroy Hitler."--Bill O'Reilly
**- "Spectacular . . . Taking Berlin is certain to be a massive
hit with fans of both history and thrillers alike."--Mark Greaney,
bestselling author of the Gray Man series ****
Fall, 1944. Paris has been liberated, saved from destruction, but this
diversion on the road to Berlin has given the Germans time to regroup.
The American and British armies press on from the west, facing the enemy
time and again in the Hurtgen Forest, during the Market Garden invasion,
and at the Battle of the Bulge, all while American general George Patton
and British field marshal Bernard Montgomery vie for supremacy as the
Allies' top battlefield commander.
Meanwhile, the Soviets begin to squeeze Hitler's crumbling Reich from
the east. Led by Generals Zhukov and Konev, the Red Army launches
millions of soldiers, backed by tanks, artillery, and warplanes, against
the Germans, leaving death and scorched earth in their wake, pushing the
Wehrmacht back toward their fatherland. As both the Anglo-American
alliance and the Soviets set their sights on claiming the capital city
of Nazi Germany, Churchill seeks to ensure Britain's place in a new
world divided by Roosevelt's America and Stalin's Soviet Union.
With a sweeping cast of historical figures, Taking Berlin is a
pulse-pounding race into the final, desperate months of the Second World
War and toward the fiery destruction of the Thousand-Year-Reich,
chronicling a moment in history when allies become adversaries.
