Fest describes in riveting detail the final weeks of the war, from the desperate battles that raged night and day in the ruins of Berlin, fought by boys and old men, to the growing paranoia that marked Hitler's mental state-his utter disregard for the well being of both soldiers and civilians- to his suicide and the efforts of his loyal aides to destroy his body before the advancing Russian armies reached Berlin. Author Joachim Fest shows that the devastation was the result of Hitler's determination to take the entire country down with him he would make sure that his enemies would find only a wasteland, where once there was a thriving civilization. Joachim Fest (9780330431705) by Fest, Joachim and a great selection of similar New. Never before has the defeat of a nation been accompanied by such monumental loss of life, such utter destruction. : Inside Hitlers Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich. There is nothing in recent history that comes close to the cataclysmic events of the spring of 1945. Summary: The final days of World War II are related in a study that furnishes details of Hitler's final days in the bunker and the torment on the streets of Germany's cities and towns as the Third Reich collapsed under the weight of American, British, French, and Russian forces.
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