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From Martin Dugard 1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Bill OReillys Killing series comes a nonfiction thriller about the race between the Allies and Soviets to conquer the heart of Nazi Germany

Gripping popular history at its pageturning bestAlex Kershaw With the precision of a smart bomb Martin Dugard puts the reader directly into the campaign to destroy HitlerBill OReilly Spectacular Taking Berlin is certain to be a massive hit with fans of both history and thrillers alikeMark Greaney bestselling author of the Gray Man series

Fall 1944 Paris has been liberated saved from destruction but this diversion on the road to Berlin has given the Germans time to regroup The American and British armies press on from the west facing the enemy time and again in the Hurtgen Forest during the Market Garden invasion and at the Battle of the Bulge all while American general George Patton and British field marshal Bernard Montgomery vie for supremacy as the Allies top battlefield commander

Meanwhile the Soviets begin to squeeze Hitlers crumbling Reich from the east Led by Generals Zhukov and Konev the Red Army launches millions of soldiers backed by tanks artillery and warplanes against the Germans leaving death and scorched earth in their wake pushing the Wehrmacht back toward their fatherland As both the AngloAmerican alliance and the Soviets set their sights on claiming the capital city of Nazi Germany Churchill seeks to ensure Britains place in a new world divided by Roosevelts America and Stalins Soviet Union

With a sweeping cast of historical figures Taking Berlin is a pulsepounding race into the final desperate months of the Second World War and toward the fiery destruction of the ThousandYearReich chronicling a moment in history when allies become adversaries