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'Unputdownable' - The Sunday Times 'Nobody has written a better account' - The Observer 'Such pace, drama and immediacy that one could almost believe he had been an eye-witness' - The Spectator In this compelling reconstruction, Joachim Fest, Germany's greatest historian of Nazism describes in vivid detail the claustrophobic atmosphere of the Fuhrer's bunker during the bitter last days of the war when, drugged and enfeebled, Hitler veered between hysterical despair and lunatic optimism while his regime disintegrated amid desperate acts of betrayal, recrimination and suicide. NOW PART OF THE PICADOR COLLECTION

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Moves like a blood racing thriller * The Catholic Times * Vivid and creepy, as well as darkly comic * The Mail on Sunday * Unputdownable * The Sunday Times * Nobody has written a better account * The Observer * Such pace, drama and immediacy that one could almost believe he had been an eye-witness * The Spectator *

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Joachim Fest was the author of several highly regarded, award-winning books on Nazi Germany including Speer: The Final Verdict, Plotting Hitler's Death, The Face of the Third Reich and his classic biography of Adolf Hitler, Hitler. He died in 2006.

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