The battle for Berlin was a relentless, overwhelming assault marked by the largest artillery bombardment in history, with millions of shells raining down on the city. As Soviet forces closed in from ...

The incessant roar of the planes—that typical and terrible 20th Century sound, a voice of cold mechanized anger—filled every ear in the city. It reverberated in the bizarre stone ears of the hollow, ...

To the German capital and its people last week came the most violent and perhaps the most fateful days since Red armies three years ago blasted their way across the Tiergarten, littered with uniformed ...