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The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945
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The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945 Paperback - 2012

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From the preeminent Hitler biographer, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II

Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost the Second World War, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the equally vital questions of how and why the Third Reich did not surrender until Germany had been left in ruins and almost completely occupied. Drawing on prodigious new research, Ian Kershaw, an award-winning historian and the author of Fateful Choices, explores these fascinating questions in a gripping and focused narrative that begins with the failed bomb plot in July 1944 and ends with the death of Adolf Hitler and the German capitulation in 1945. The End paints a harrowing yet enthralling portrait of the Third Reich in its last desperate gasps.

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From the author of To Hell and Back, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost the Second World War, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the equally vital questions of how and why the Third Reich did not surrender until Germany had been left in ruins and almost completely occupied. Drawing on prodigious new research, Ian Kershaw, an award-winning historian and the author of Fateful Choices, explores these fascinating questions in a gripping and focused narrative that begins with the failed bomb plot in July 1944 and ends with the death of Adolf Hitler and the German capitulation in 1945. The End paints a harrowing yet enthralling portrait of the Third Reich in its last desperate gasps.

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  • Title The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945
  • Author Ian Kershaw
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 608
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, East Rutherford, NJ, U.S.A.
  • Date 2012-08-28
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780143122135 / 0143122134
  • Weight 1.07 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.47 x 5.55 x 1.35 in (21.51 x 14.10 x 3.43 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Germany
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945 - Germany, Hitler, Adolf - Military leadership
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.534

About the author

Ian Kershaw, author of To Hell and Back, The End, Fateful Choices, and Making Friends with Hitler, is a British historian of twentieth-century Germany noted for his monumental biographies of Adolf Hitler. In 2002, he received his knighthood for services to history. He is a fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Historical Society, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung in Bonn, Germany. His newest book, Personality and Power, will be published in November, 2022.
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