LAST LAURELS: THE GERMAN
DEFENCE OF
UPPER SILESIA JANUARY-MAY 1945
by Georg Gunter
By January
1945, Upper Silesia had become Germany's key industrial
region, with its coal mines, blast furnaces, arms factories
and hydrogenation plants. Not surprisingly, when the Soviets
launched a series of powerful offensives aimed at capturing
the region, the German defence was bitter, bordering on the
suicidal. Soviet reactions were brutal, the Red Army
committing widespread atrocities, which have received little
coverage until now. In this readable and fast-paced
translation from the German edition, the author presents a
penetrating description of the events which occurred in
Silesia during the first five months of 1945 - from the
massive Soviet offensive on 12th January, through to the
final German defensive actions around Ratibor five months
later.
Fine in
illustrated boards - Large Format, 309pp, illustrations,
maps
