Ian Kershaw 
End [EPUB ebook] 
Germany, 1944-45

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