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Last Days of the Third Reich: The Collapse of Nazi Germany, May 1945
  
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Last Days of the Third Reich: The Collapse of Nazi Germany, May 1945 (Hardcover)

by James Sidney Lucas (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 255 pages
  • Publisher: William Morrow & Co (Nov 1986)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0688066380
  • ISBN-13: 978-0688066383
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,577,835 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Not politically correct, 23 Jan 2010
By Julian S. Roche (Scotland) - See all my reviews
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I don't think that a book's review should be based on whether one agrees with the political perspective of the author. Everyone is biased, one way or the other. Sure, Lucas is a Stone Age right-winger, and yes, he completely fails to mention SS atrocities. But don't we all know about them already? By May 1945, the date of his stories, the Germans weren't in much of a position to commit atrocities any more, and it's well worth our remembering, or learning, what appalling things were done to the Croats, for instance, or how the British Army stood by and let Cossacks pass over to the East to almost certain death.

What is great about this book is the level of detail, and the fact that as a former soldier himself, Lucas doesn't err when talking about military matters. If I had any quibble it is that we could do with more maps, but that's a relatively small quibble. On the whole this is an excellent book which those interested in postwar European history would be well served to read. I fear though, few schoolchildren will, as there are no scandalous stories of celebrities or tales of shareholder value.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good but very biased, 29 April 2004
This is the first book i have read by James Lucas, it started out well,but very early on the term "ivan" had been given to every russian soldier.The book also portrayed the russians as savages and Lucas went into alotof detail of the rapings and violence commited by Russian troops but madeno mention of attrocities commited by the Germans or SS on the russianfront.
This was also true with the story of Titos partisans, they weresteretyped as nothing but perverted butchers and this gave the image thatLucas was trying to portray the Germans, espcecially the SS as noblewarriors fighting for a just cause and that they were the ones being putthrough unjust suffering and that the only reason they were defeated wasdue to the Allies, notably the russians superior manpower.
The bookwas excellent in that it was able to describe the last few days of thethird reich in a very detailed military sense, and it also covered justabout every theatre of war on the westerne front. This would have been agreater book if Lucas had avoided a very strong anti bolshevik attitudeand accepted that the germans too carried out the same attrocities that hewent into so much detail with about the easterne powers.
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