The End

Beschreibung

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 of the final months of Nazi Germany, laying bare the fear and fanaticism that drove a nation to destruction.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Just what made Germany keep on fighting?<BR>Why did its rulers not cut a deal to save their own skins?<BR>And why did ordinary people continue to obey the Fuhrer's suicidal orders, with countless Germans executing their own countrymen for desertion or defeatism?<BR><BR>'Nuanced and sophisticated ... undoubtedly a masterpiece' - Mail on Sunday<BR><BR>'Gripping yet scholarly ... the best attempt by far to answer the complex question of why Nazi Germany carried on fighting to total self-destruction' - Antony Beevor, Telegraph<BR><BR>'Masterly ...

Kershaw's gripping and boldly intelligent work of scholarship ... will surely become the standard account of the Nazi system's terrible final phase' - Financial Times<BR><BR>'Brilliant ... utterly terrifying' - Sunday Times, Books of the Year

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