Battle for Festunga. The fortified cities of the Third Reich

The third Reich began the Second World War with support on the most advanced technologies: diving bombers, tank wedges, air assaults and psychostimulants. But when the front in the east and west rolled to the heart of Germany, the German command began to look for support in the past. Then Hitler himself proposed the idea of ​​"fortresses" (Festung) - fortified cities leading the fight surrounded. Starting with the dubious successes of Tarnopol and the Kovel of the Spring of 1944, the practice of fortified cities suffered full during the Bagration operation, but unexpectedly widely revived in the last months of the Reich: Poznan and the top of the Festunga-Breslau.
The book of a leading military historian, based on both German and recently declassified Soviet documents, in all details restores the course of the struggle with the great problems of the Red Army "fortresses". The struggle for the Festungs truly became a battle in the stone jungle - it was conducted in the ruins of ancient and the latest buildings, half -abandoned