Egbert Kiesers graphic account of the Red Armys assault on East Prussia in 1945 is one of the classic histories of the destruction of Hitlers Germany & it has never before been available in English. Using extensive first-hand unforgettable eyewitness testimony he documents in riveting detail the catastrophe that overtook German civilians & soldiers as they fled from the Soviet onslaught & their world collapsed around them. Tony Le Tissier in this fluent & vivid translation of the original German text brings to bear all his expert knowledge of the military defeat of the German armies in the East & the enormity of the human disaster that went with it. Egbert Kieser was born in 1928 in Bad Salzungen Thuringen & studied philosophy & the history of art at Heidelberg University. He worked as a freelance journalist writer & editor. Among his many publications are two outstanding studies of German Second World War history
- Danziger Bucht 1945 (which is translated here as Prussian Apocalypse) & Operation Sea Lion: The German Plan to Invade Britain 1940.