By Kevin Seabrooke

With nearly a million Soviet soldiers taking on the entrenched Germans outside of Berlin, there was little doubt about the outcome in May 1945. There would be a bloody, street-by-street battle, but the Third Reich was over.

Using first-hand accounts of the action, Buttar recreates the brutal clash between a Red Army thirsting for vengeance and the desperate, fanatical Nazis clinging to a last shred of hope. Even as they fell, a new war—the Cold War—was already beginning.

An expert on the Eastern Front, Buttar’s previous books include a critically acclaimed two-volume series on the siege of Leningrad: To Besiege a City and Hero City, also published by Osprey.

Berlin: Endgame 1945 (Prit Buttar, Osprey Publishing, New York, NY, 448 pp., 8-page b/w plate section, May 5, 2026 $38 HC)