The Last Days of Hitler

Hugh Trevor-Roper
University of Chicago Press
 9780226812243
0-226-81224-3

Late in 1945, Trevor-Roper was appointed by British Intelligence in Germany to investigate conflicting evidence surrounding Hitler's final days and to produce a definitive report on his death. The author,.

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who had access to American counterintelligence files and to German prisoners, focuses on the last ten days of Hitler's life, April 20-29, 1945, in the underground bunker in Berlin--a bizarre and gripping episode punctuated by power play and competition among Hitler's potential successors. From exhaustive research [Trevor-Roper] has put together a carefully documented, irrefutable, and unforgettable reconstruction of the last days in April, 1945.--New Republic A book sound in its scholarship, brilliant in its presentation, a delight for historians and laymen alike.--A. J. P. Taylor, New Statesman