Hitler's bunker was the setting for one of the most dramatic final acts in history. Using eye-witness accounts, and drawing on a working life's research into Hitler and the Nazi party, the great historian, Joachim Fest, has produced a gripping new narrative of the tortured collapse of the Third Reich. As Stalin's massive forces destroy Berlin around him, we are shown a drugged, enfeebled Hitler veering wildly between hysterical despair, lunatic optimism and psychopathic cravings for total destruction. As Russian tanks grind their way ever nearer, the Nazi regime crumbles amidst desperate acts of betrayal, suicide and mutual recrimination. These final days reveal the true nature of Hitler and his party: their deluded sense of historical purpose, their morbid love of self-destruction, and their murderous disregard for the fate of the German people.

'even those readers familiar with the material will be unable to put the book down' - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung