Into the Reich: The Red Army’s Advance to the Oder in 1945 with Prit Buttar (Osprey, 2025)

Prit Buttar discusses his latest Osprey volume on the Vistula-Oder offensive of January 1945 — one of the most devastating operational-level campaigns of the war. Buttar is among the best English-language historians of the Eastern Front, and the interview covers the Red Army's planning, the Wehrmacht's collapse in Poland, and the race to secure a start line for the Berlin operation. The first-hand accounts woven through the narrative give it an immediacy that pure operational analysis sometimes lacks. If you follow the Eastern Front at all, this is not optional.