The Bitter End

As Hitler’s empire crumbled, the Eastern Front became a crucible of destruction—this is the definitive account of its final, brutal months.

The world had never seen anything like the Eastern Front in World War II. In the so-called bloodlands between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union—from the Baltic in the north to the Balkans, the Crimea, and the Caucasus in the south—the two sides clashed in a series of titanic campaigns that involved millions of soldiers and entangled many more civi…