[Jon]

Thanks for the responses, The shots fired in the book were definate actions and remember it was a big fear of the Brits and Americans in 1945 that the Russians would just continue on through Germany into France pushing us back into the sea. Powerfull as Britain and the US were in 1945 i think the Russians would have managed this , remember 70% of German combat losses were inflicted on the Eastern front !

Indeed some peope feel that our bombing of Dresden when the war was almost finished was partly ( or totally) to show the Russians who were only 50 miles away and going to get their first, that RAF bomber command by 1945 could level a whole city in one night....and make them think twice about attacking their former Allies.