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In September 1945, the fate of Hitler was a complete mystery. He had simply disappeared, missing for four months. The author, a British counter-intelligence officer, was given the task of solving this mystery. His brilliant piece of detective work not only proved that Hitler had killed himself in Berlin, but also produced one of the most fascinating history books ever written. His book tells the extraordinary story of those last days in the Berlin Bunker. The New Statesman has called this book "incomparable…by far the best written on any aspect of the second German war-a book sound in scholarship, brilliant in its presentation." Chapters include: Hitler & his court. Hitler in defeat. The court in defeat. Crisis & decision. Siege of the Bunker. Et Tu Brute. Death of Hitler. Epilogue. Notes on sources. Index.
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In September 1945, the fate of Adolf Hitler was a complete mystery. Missing for four months, he had simply disappeared. Hugh Trevor–Roper, a British intelligence officer, was given the task of solving the mystery. His brilliant piece of detective work proved finally that Hitler had killed himself in Berlin. It also produced one of the most fascinating history books ever written. Originally published in 1947 and now revised, The Last Days of Hitler tells the extraordinary story of those final days of the Thousand Year Reich—a dramatic, carefully planned finale to a terrible chapter of history.
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Hugh Trevor Roper (1914–2003) was one of the most famous historians of his generation. His books include Archbishop Laud, A Hidden Life, The Last Days of Hitler, The Reformation and Social Change, Princes and Artists, and Renaissance Essays.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. The bunker: history?s least appealing retirement plan. The Last Days of Hitler by Hugh Trevor-Roper is one of the classic accounts of the collapse of the Third Reich, following the final days in Berlin as delusion, fear, loyalty, panic, and ruin closed in underground. Trevor-Roper writes with forensic control, piecing together testimony, documents, and the grim theatre of a regime destroying itself while still trying to issue orders. It is not battlefield history in the broad sense, but a close study of the endgame: the narrowing rooms, the failing command structure, and the grotesque absurdity of power after reality has left the building. There is a savage irony in it all. A dictatorship built on spectacle, conquest, and grand historical destiny ended in concrete rooms, bad air, desperate courtiers, and maps that no longer matched the world outside. This good Pan copy, as sold by Crappy Old Books, is ideal for readers of Second World War history, Nazi Germany, political collapse, and anyone interested in how tyrannies end when the myth finally runs out of space. Seller Inventory # 6226
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