Inside Hitler's Bunker The Last Days of the Third Reich

by Fest, Joachim; Dembo, Margot

• ISBN13: 9780312423926
• ISBN10: 0312423926
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-15
• Publisher: Picador

Summary

'Remarkable....[a] vivid (and beautifully translated) account.'-Jerusalem Post Fest describes in riveting detail the final weeks of the war, from the desperate battles that raged night and day inthe ruins of Berlin, fought by boys and old men, to the growing paranoia that marked Hitler's mental state, to his suicide and the efforts of his loyal aides to destroy his body before the advancing Russian armies reached Berlin. Inside Hitler's Bunker combines meticulous research with spellbinding storytelling and sheds light on events that, for those who survived them, were nothing less than the end of the world.

Author Biography

Joachim Fest was born in Berlin in 1926. His previous books include The Face of the Third Reich; Hitler, his celebrated biography of Adolf Hitler; Plotting Hitler's Death; and Speer: The Final Verdict , for which he has won numerous awards. A film adaptation of Inside Hitler's Bunker, entitled The Downfall, has become a European blockbuster.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
ONE The Battle Begins	3	(30)
TWO Hitler in German History: Consistency or Catastrophe?	33	(11)
THREE "The War Is Lost!"	44	(26)
FOUR Finis	70	(13)
FIVE Banquet of Death	83	(40)
SIX The Will to Destroy	123	(12)
SEVEN Capitulation	135	(30)
EIGHT The End of a World	165	(10)
Bibliography	175	(8)
Index	183