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Peacekeeping and Public Information: Caught in the Crossfire
Contributor(s): Lehmann, Ingrid (Author)
ISBN: 0714644900     ISBN-13: 9780714644905
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $65.50  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 1999
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Annotation: The soldiers of the Red Army identified the Reichstag as the victor's prize to be taken in Berlin. Stalin had promised Berlin to Marshal Zhukov, but the latter's blundering in the preliminary breakthrough battle threw his timetable and forced a complete change of plan for reducing the city. Stalin used the opportunity to chasten his subordinates by allowing Marshal Koniev, Zhukov's rival, to introduce one of his tank armies into the competition unknown to Zhukov. Abandoning the rest of his army group, Koniev personally directed this army in the hope of grabbing the prize.


Meanwhile, the Germans improvised a defence with inadequate resources. The remains of General Weidling's 56th Panzer Corps were reluctantly dragged into the city in a futile attempt to prolong the life of the Third Reich, whose leaders squabbled and schemed in their underground shelters, a world apart from the reality outside, where their subjects suffered and died unheeded. Ten days later, after the successive suicides ofHitler and Goebbels, the survivors chose between breakout and surrender.


This account of the battle lays the many myths created by Soviet propaganda after the event and details what exactly happened as the Red Army and the Allies raced to be the first to the Reichstag.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | International Relations - General
- Technology & Engineering | Military Science
- Political Science | Peace
Dewey: 327.172
LCCN: 98047853
Series: Cass Series on Peacekeeping
Physical Information: 0.41" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.61 lbs) 176 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
Ms Lehmann has provided a timely and challenging prescription for just how the goals of placing communication functions at the heart of the strategic management of the UN might be achieved - and a dramatic warning of the consequences of failing to do so.