THE RED ARMY TOWARDS THE ODER: Then and Now

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Provides three articles from magazine After the Battle documenting the Soviet advance on the Oder and the long-drawn-out struggles for the bridgeheads over it: The Battle for Festung Posen, 1945; The Oder Bridgeheads, 1945; and The Battle of Festung Kustrin. The Oder was the last great river barring the way to Berlin and the Germans mobilized everything in a desperate effort to prevent a Soviet march on the capital. Contains 192 mono illustrations.