My outside reading novel for this quarter is “The Fall of Berlin 1945”. I chose this because I grew tired of the basic fact books on World War II. This book covers the fall of Berlin in a college level detail, which I have been looking for, for quite some time. As of now I would rate this book for me personally 4 out of five stars because I enjoy books on the history of war. For anybody else to read this book I would give it 2 out of 5 for how incredibly slow it moves. My rating system is a star system because it is the simplest for people to understand, and they don’t have to think hard about it.
A question I would have for the author was how he got so many personal quotes from general to general and quotes from civilians. It confuses me how he got so many facts because after the soviets took Berlin the soviets literally almost destroyed every single piece of information that the Nazi’s had recorded.
The quote that really sticks out to me is: By December 1944, many of the 3 million citizens of Berlin had stopped giving the Nazi salute, and jokes circulated that the most practical Christmas gift was a coffin. pg 1. It stuck out to me so much because it clearly showed how much chaos Berlin had fallen into during the last months of the war.
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