Red Storm on the Reich: The Soviet March on Germany, 1945

by Christopher Duffy

Release Date: April, 1993

Edition: Paperback

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Excellent narrative of Russians' final set of offensives.

I thought this book was well written, research and quite interesting. The book was written without much bias and accounts from both sides were taken into consideration. Like the previous reviewer, I didn't understand why Mr. Duffy didn't go into Battle of Berlin which was the crowning jewel of the Soviet offensives which ended the war. I guess Antony Beevor's work have to covered that end. The book come highly recommended for anyone interested in the final months of the Third Reich along the eastern front.

Missing only the finale

Duffy has written an excellent book on the chaotic times as the Soviets invaded Germany from the east. Some things will never be known with any certainty, but Duffy manages to give a coherent account of a tumultuous time. I give only four stars because the book omits the actual capture of Berlin. In some ways Berlin was anticlimatic, because the Reich was disintegrating, but without Berlin in the book, it feels incomplete.