TY - BOOK AU - Beevor, Antony TI - Berlin the downfall 1945 SN - 0140286969 U1 - 940.5421 PY - 2003/// PB - Penguin Books KW - Berlin, Battle of 1945 KW - Germany - History - 1945-1955 N1 - 'Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Antony Beevor has reconstituted the experience of those millions caught up in the nightmare crescendo of the Third Reich's final defeat; Antony Beevor A regular in the 11th Hussars, Antony Beevor served in Germany and England. He has had a number of books published and his book Stalingrad was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson History Prize and the Hawthornden Prize. Among the many prestigious posts he holds, he is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature ER -