The Last Days of Hitler, 7th Edition

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

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

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

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

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