Fest describes in riveting detail the final weeks of the war, from the desperate battles that raged night and day in the ruins of Berlin, fought by boys and old men, to the growing paranoia that marked Hitler's mental state, to his suicide and the efforts of his loyal aides to destroy his body befor[...]

A portrait of an intellectually rigorous German household opposed to the Nazis and how its members suffered for their political stanceFew writers have deepened our understanding of the Third Reich as much as German historian, biographer, journalist, and critic Joachim Fest. His biography of Adolf Hi[...]

Modstandskampen i det nazistiske Tyskland, især den militære modstand, der kulminerede i attentatet mod Hitler den 20. juli 1944.[...]

Portræt af Det tredje Riges villige personale, generalerne - og de jævne tyskere - der stod bag Hitler og virkeliggjorde de nazistiske ambitioner om Blitzkrieg, racerenhed og jødeudryddelse. Læs blandt andet om Rudolf Höss, kommandanten fra Auschwitz, der aldrig forstod, at han havde gjort noge[...]

A quiet, proud, often painful, always clear-eyed memoir... It deserves wide attention in the English-speaking world. It is illuminating of the man, of the times he lived through, and also of a rare kind of moral resolve, both sobering and inspiring.' Rachel Seiffert, Guardian[...]