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The Last 100 Days - John Toland

Description: ISBN 0553103490 / Author: John Toland / Paperback / Book is published 2000-01 by Bantam Books

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... January 12,' writes Toland. 'Almost 3 million Russians - a dozen times the troops that landed on D-Day - supported by mass artillery and led by inexhaustible streams of Stalin and T-34 tanks unexpectedly attacked 750,000 poorly armed Germans on a 400 mile front.' The situation is clearly hopeless and Toland presents a scene where Hitler argues with his Eastern commander Guderian over what to do. Hitler has appointed Himmler as commander of an army group in the East despite Himmler having no experience in battle ...more

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The Last 100 Days - John Toland: War and Peace (1451 words)
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The Last 100 Days by John Toland, first published in 1965 according to my hardback copy, tells the story of the last 100 days of WW2 in Europe. "Perhaps no other 100 days in history have had more significance," writes the author in a note at the start of the book. "Within the space of three months Roosevelt, Hitler and Mussolini died, as did Facism and Nazism. V-E Day marked the end of one era and the beginning of another." The author explains that he attempted to write of these portentous days as if they took place a hundred years ago and to portray the central figures with the objectivity of the time. The book is based on hundreds of interviews with ... Read the complete review