Prit Buttar studied medicine at Oxford and London before joining the British Army as a doctor. After leaving the army, he has worked as a GP, first near Bristol and now in Abingdon. He is extensively involved in medical politics, both at local and national level, and serves on the GPs' Committee of the British Medical Association. He appears from time to time on local and national TV and radio, speaking on a variety of medical issues. He contributes regularly to the medical press. He has written a novel, but this is his first work of military history.

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• List of IllustrationsList of MapsAuthor’s NotePrefaceIntroduction: the Slavs and the Teutons1 Fritz and Ivan: The Opposing Forces2 Memel3 Nemmersdorf4 The Last Christmas5 The House of Cards - the Great January Offensive6 Cherniakhovsky and the Pregel Valley7 Rokossovsky reaches the Coast8 Encircled in East Prussia9 Hannibal - The Baltic Evacuation Begins10 The Riviera of Hades and the Fall of Pomerania11 Heiligenbeil - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea12 Konigsberg13 Danzig14 The Last Command15 The Long Road HomeNotesBibliographyIndex

Prit Buttar studied medicine at Oxford and London before joining the British Army as a doctor. After leaving the army, he has worked as a GP, first near Bristol and now in Abingdon. He is extensively involved in medical politics, both at local and national level, and serves on the GPs' Committee of the British Medical Association. He appears from time to time on local and national TV and radio, speaking on a variety of medical issues. He contributes regularly to the medical press. He has written a novel, but this is his first work of military history.

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• List of IllustrationsList of MapsAuthor’s NotePrefaceIntroduction: the Slavs and the Teutons1 Fritz and Ivan: The Opposing Forces2 Memel3 Nemmersdorf4 The Last Christmas5 The House of Cards - the Great January Offensive6 Cherniakhovsky and the Pregel Valley7 Rokossovsky reaches the Coast8 Encircled in East Prussia9 Hannibal - The Baltic Evacuation Begins10 The Riviera of Hades and the Fall of Pomerania11 Heiligenbeil - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea12 Konigsberg13 Danzig14 The Last Command15 The Long Road HomeNotesBibliographyIndex