Required:
Murray and Millett, A War to Be Won, pp. 446-83, 565-68, 571-71.

Suggested:
Antony Beevor, The Fall of Berlin, 1945 (New York: Viking Penguin, 2002).

David Hogan, "Berlin Revisited--and Revised: Eisenhower's Decision to Halt at the Elbe," in Arnold Offner and Theodore Wilson, eds., Victory in Europe: From World War to Cold War (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2000), pp. 77-101 (pdf).

Vladimir V. Pozniakov, "Commoners, Commissars, and Spies: Soviet Policies and Society," in Arnold Offner and Theodore Wilson, eds., Victory in Europe: From World War to Cold War (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2000), pp. 183-212.

John Erickson, The Road to Berlin (Boulder: Westview Press, 1983).