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Title: The End
Condition: New
EAN: 9780141014210
ISBN: 9780141014210
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 26/04/2012
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Width: 25mm
Item Weight: 428g
Author: Ian Kershaw
Language: English
Subtitle: Germany, 1944-45
ISBN-10: 0141014210
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: History
Topic: Military History
Release Year: 2012
Description:

Named Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, TLS, Spectator, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail and Scotland on Sunday, Ian Kershaw's The End is a searing account of the final months of Nazi Germany, laying bare the fear and fanaticism that drove a nation to destruction.

In almost every major war there comes a point where defeat looms for one side and its rulers cut a deal with the victors, if only in an attempt to save their own skins. In Hitler's Germany, nothing of this kind happened: in the end the regime had to be stamped out town by town with an almost unprecedented level of brutality.

Just what made Germany keep on fighting?
Why did its rulers not cut a deal to save their own skins?
And why did ordinary people continue to obey the Fuhrer's suicidal orders, with countless Germans executing their own countrymen for desertion or defeatism?

'Nuanced and sophisticated ... undoubtedly a masterpiece' - Mail on Sunday

'Gripping yet scholarly ... the best attempt by far to answer the complex question of why Nazi Germany carried on fighting to total self-destruction' - Antony Beevor, Telegraph

'Masterly ... Kershaw's gripping and boldly intelligent work of scholarship ... will surely become the standard account of the Nazi system's terrible final phase' - Financial Times

'Brilliant ... utterly terrifying' - Sunday Times, Books of the Year

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