The Last Battle Author:Cornelius Ryan A Masterpiece....a remarkable reconstruction of that immense and complicated battleground...filled with drama...of ordinary people in the last days of a dead or dying city, of a milkman watching to see if the picture of Hitler disappears off the wall of a high Nazi official, of a housewife wondering when she should set out her potato plants, of ... more »a priest seeking the right words to tell 60 unworldly nuns that they are in danger of being raped, of some of the 3,000 Jews who are still alive --incredibly-- in secret hideouts, of an allied spy shopping for delicacies with the Nazi elite and trying to find out if Hitler is in Berlin.« less