The road to Berlin

Night on January 12, 1945. The Red Army is ready to go on a decisive offensive on the Vistula. The noise of the engines in the latest regrouping on the Sandomir bridgehead is masked with loud music through the reproductors. This" concert "completes the new anthem of the Soviet Union:" In battles, we decide the fate of generations ... - rushing over the front line. - Soviet banner, folk banner let him lead from victory to victory! " The last majestic notes barely subsided - volleys of thousands of guns struck, merging into a deafening roar ...
The Visl-Odery Strategic Offective Operation has become one of the greatest triumphs of the USSR-in just 23 days with minimal losses, the Red Army advanced west by 500 km (the pace of offensive is three times higher than during the Bagration operation, which is more rapid than the most high-profile Nazi Blitzkriegov!) It seemed that the Wehrmacht was completely crushed. It seemed that a few weeks were left before the victory. But the bloody road to Berlin took another three months ...
This book restores the course of the decisive battles of 1945 - from the brilliant "autopsy" of the Vislinsky bridgeheads and Prussian forts, the assaults of "Festung" Poznan and Budapest to Balaton and Vienna