During many years working in several senior official positions in Berlin including spells as provost marshal and British governor of Spandau prison Tony Le Tissier accumulated a vast knowledge of the Second World War on the Eastern Front. He has published a series of outstanding books on the subject including The Battle of Berlin 1945, Zhukov at the Oder, Race For the Reichstag, Berlin Battlefield Guide and The Siege of Kstrin 1945. He has also translated Prussian Apocalypse: The Fall of Danzig 1945, Soviet Conquest: Berlin 1945, With Paulus at Stalingrad, Soviet Conquest: Berlin 1945 and After Stalingrad: Seven Years as a Soviet Prisoner of War.