Though Hitler took his own life on April 30th, the Battle of Berlin continued until early May and is considered one of the most gruelling fights of the overall Second World War. Greenland Solves ...

And at week’s end a fleet of more than 1,000 R.A.F. bombers fought a grueling battle with flak and night-fighters over Berlin, paying with 73 bombers for the huge fires left spreading in the ...

Yet, to the British historian, John Pimlott it was the epitome of an ideological clash, because “a victory [in Berlin] would symbolise more than just the winning of a battle – it would ...