Tony Le Tissier

Tony Le Tissier MBE (* 1932 ) is a British historian who wrote various works on World War II , among other things . The battle for Berlin and the battle for the Seelower Heights are among his main research interests.

Life

Le Tissier was a career officer in the British armed forces and the last military governor of the Spandau war crimes prison , in which Rudolf Hess and Albert Speer , among others , were imprisoned after the end of the Second World War . After his retirement he stayed in Berlin and did research there for several years.

Works (selection)

Non-fiction

• With Our Backs to Berlin
• Slaughter at Halbe: The Destruction of Hitler's 9th Army
• The Siege Of Kustrin 1945: Gateway To Berlin
• The Battle of Berlin 1945
• Marshal Zhukov at the Oder: The Decisive Battle for Berlin
• Berlin Battlefield Guide: Third Reich and Cold War
• SS Charlemagne: The 33rd Waffen-Grenadier Division of the SS
• Berlin Then and Now
• Death Was Our Companion: The Final Days of the Third Reich
• Race For The Reichstag: The 1945 Battle For Berlin
• Patton's Pawns: The 94th US Infantry Division at the Siegfried Line
• The Third Reich Then and Now
• Soviet Conquest: Berlin 1945
• Farewell to Spandau