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The Last Days of Hitler

  • 284 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 1947
  • 49 editions

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1 About this book

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, 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.

Good for readers who want: a true life story, politics, and history.

  • Biography
  • Politics and government
  • Germany, biography
  • History Germany
  • History
  • Heads of state
  • Death and burial
  • World War II

2 About H. R. Trevor-Roper

1914–2003

Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton (15 January 1914 – 26 January 2003) was an English historian. He was Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. Trevor-Roper was a polemicist and essayist on a range of historical topics, but particularly England in the 16th and 17th centuries and Nazi Germany.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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