Anthony Beevor has a real talent for telling so lively and yet objective and documented historical events based on real facts and numerous testimonies and documents (he had access to such valuable Russian archives after 1990). This very serious work is based on extensive research in archives and, while being a work intended to collect success with the general public (which is the case), has some value as a historical work. Were titrated from this bestseller a very good movie (der Untergang / fall, with Bruno Ganz) who very accurately recreates the atmosphere of the last days before the fall of Berlin; the book has the great merit of not limiting, what the film more reducing in the last days or the single perimeter of Berlin, but to present things in a broader context: Russian advance from Poland, strategy and Russian, German and Allied military operations in all their magnitude, duplicity and Stalin's skill, candor Roosevelt, madness and loss of touch with the reality of Hitler, cowardice, cynicism and incompetence of sycophantic courtiers ... The ferocity share and the other is the more terrifying than all this is extremely close to us in time and space. This is our history.
