Berlin: Story of a Battle, April-May, 1945

xii, 304 pp. Includes maps on endpapers, section of black-and-white photographs. At the end of World War II, Andrew Tully was one of three Americans allowed to enter Berlin as a guest of a Russian artillery battalion commander. He spent the next seventeen years gathering eyewitness accounts, collecting war diaries and letters, and reading over one hundred books in order to write this gripping and comprehensive account about the fall of Berlin.