The final book of the Encyclopedia of World War II series, The Collapse of the Third Reich, describes the events of the spring and summer of 1945 that marked the end of World War II: the Allies returned to Burma, and the Japanese tried to overthrow British rule in India; bloody battles in the Philippines continued in the Pacific theater, the Japanese lost the islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa; meanwhile, the Germans continued the struggle for survival in Northwest Europe, and another obstacle remained in the Allies' path to victory - the Rhine, which was forced in March; Soviet troops captured Koenigsberg, crossed the Spree and headed for Berlin; to achieve the unconditional surrender of Japan, the Allies brought down new weapons of mass destruction on it - in Hiroshima and Nagasaki... Exciting material for everyone who is interested in the history of mankind.