The last months of the Second World War were a nightmarish time to be alive. By all kinds of criteria it was the end: The end of the Third Reich and its terrible empire but also, increasingly, it seemed to be the end of European civilization itself. Ian Kershaw describes these final months, from the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in July 1944 to the German surrender in May 1945, and asks, ’What made Germany keep on fighting?’ His authoritative study explains, in chilling detail, how the Führer held his grip over the German people for so long.
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