The Last Days of Hitler
16 August 2012Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Listed as one of the Guardian's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time.
In September 1945 the fate of Adolf Hitler was a complete mystery. He had simply disappeared, and had been missing for four months. Hugh Trevor-Roper, an intelligence officer, was given the task of solving the mystery. His brilliant piece of detective work not only proved finally that...
Details
16 August 2012288 pages
9780330470278Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Some books simply exude excitement and self-confidence, as if the writer is on fire with ideas, or intoxicated with information. This is one of those titles...remains unsurpassed.Robert McCrum, Guardian
Brilliantly written and researched, The Last Days of Hitler remains the most vivid account of the final Wagnerian chapter of Hitler's tyranny.Max Hastings
This is an incomparable book, by far the best written on any aspect of the second German war: a book sound in scholarship, brilliant in its presentation . . . No words of praise are too strong.A. J. P. Taylor, New Statesman
A masterpiece.The Times
