Descripción

Ian Kershaw. Penguin Books, London 2012. Tapa Blanda, 564 Págs. Estado: Muy Bueno.

Ian Kershaw’s The End is a gripping, revelatory account of the final months of the Nazi war machine, from the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in July 1944 to the German surrender in May 1945.

In almost every major war there comes a point where defeat looms for one side and its rulers cut a deal with the victors, if only in an attempt to save their own skins. In Hitler’s Germany, nothing of this kind happened: in the end the regime had to be stamped out town by town with an almost unprecedented level of brutality.

• Just what made Germany keep on fighting?
• Why did its rulers not cut a deal to save their own skins?
• And why did ordinary people continue to obey the Fuhrer’s suicidal orders, with countless Germans executing their own countrymen for desertion or defeatism?

Named Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, TLS, Spectator, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail and Scotland on Sunday, Ian Kershaw’s The End is a searing account that takes us into the heart of the Third Reich’s final months, laying bare the fear and fanaticism that drove a nation to destruction.