The Last Days of Hitler, 7th Edition, Hugh TrevorRoper
The Last Days of Hitler, 7th Edition, Hugh TrevorRoper
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The Last Days of Hitler, 7th Edition

Author: Hugh Trevor-Roper

Narrator: Steven Crossley

Unabridged: 8 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/09/2016


Synopsis

In late 1945 the fate of Adolf Hitler was a complete mystery. Missing for four months, he had simply vanished. Hugh Trevor-Roper, a British intelligence officer, was given the task of solving the mystery. With access to American counterintelligence files and German prisoners, his brilliant detective work proved finally that Hitler had killed himself in Berlin. It also produced one of the most fascinating history books ever written.Originally published in 1947, The Last Days of Hitler tells the extraordinary story of those final days of the Thousand-Year Reich—a dramatic, carefully planned finale to a terrible chapter of history.

About Hugh Trevor-Roper

Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914–2003) was Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford and one of the most famous historians of his generation. His many books include The Invention of Scotland, Hermit of Peking, The Last Days of Hitler, and The Rise of Christian Europe. He became a life peer as Lord Dacre of Glanton in 1979.

About Steven Crossley

Steven Crossley, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, has built a career on both sides of the Atlantic as an actor and audiobook narrator, for which he has won more than a dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards and been a nominee for the prestigious Audie Award. He is a member of the internationally renowned theater company Complicite and has appeared in numerous theater, television, film, and radio dramas.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ian on October 03, 2020

I was pleasantly surprised at how vivid and immediate this book came across, even though it was written so long ago. Perhaps it is because it was written right at the end of the war, when the author was commissioned to explore and write-up all the known facts regarding Hitler's death in Berlin at th......more

Goodreads review by Derek on November 03, 2024

I teach one section of a European history survey each year and thought I’d brush up on fascist themes for the spring semester. So I first watched a pretty good documentary called The Meaning of Hitler, then read this classic book by Hugh Trevor-Roper. It was fairly simple and somewhat dated but very......more

Goodreads review by Carol on September 10, 2021

The movie DOWNFALL was not based on this book. But that only makes the written account of Hitler's last days more fascinating! The movie version was made in modern Germany, with attractive young German actors, and inevitably the weak-willed generals and frightened secretaries come across more as Ger......more

Goodreads review by Alexw on August 03, 2017

Was commissioned and used as the official British intelligence report of death of Hitler and has stood up to the test of time when Russia released its imprisoned Nazis as was verified by many witnesses. A harrowing account of the madness that happened as the Allies closed in- Highly recommended for......more

Goodreads review by David on January 14, 2017

It must be such fun to write about Nazis because you can be an absolute bitch and what's anyone going to say?: "Himmler himself, everyone is agreed, was an utterly insignificant man, common, pedantic, and mean. ... Hitler himself, in one sense, was not a Nazi, for the doctrines of Nazism, that great......more


Quotes

“A masterpiece.” Times (London)

“A book sound in its scholarship, brilliant in its presentation, a delight for historians and laymen alike.” New Statesman

“A carefully documented, irrefutable, and unforgettable reconstruction of the last days in April 1945.” New Republic

“Brilliantly written and researched, it remains the most vivid account of the final Wagnerian chapter of Hitler’s tyranny.” Max Hastings, author of The Battle for Normandy