The End
- Author Ian Kershaw
- Narrator David Timson
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 17 hours and 59 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre European history, Modern warfare, Second World War.
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What to expect
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook of Ian Kershaw's The End, a searing account of the last days of the Nazi Regime and the downfall of a nation. Read by David Timson.
The last months of the Second World War were a nightmarish time to be alive. Unimaginable levels of violence destroyed entire cities. Millions died or were dispossessed. By all kinds of criteria it was the end: the end of the Third Reich and its terrible empire but also, increasingly, it seemed to be the end of European civilization itself.
In his gripping, revelatory new book Ian Kershaw describes these final months, from the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in July 1944 to the German surrender in May 1945. The major question that Kershaw attempts to answer is: what made Germany keep on fighting? In almost every major war there has come a point where defeat has loomed for one side and its rulers have 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 a level of brutality almost without precedent.
Both a highly original piece of research and a gripping narrative, The End makes vivid an era which still deeply scars Europe. It raises the most profound questions about the nature of the Second World War, about the Third Reich and about how ordinary people behave in extreme circumstances.
Critics Review
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A remarkable feat of historical scholarship and intelligent analysis
Spectator -
Masterly … Kershaw’s gripping and boldly intelligent work of scholarship … will surely become the standard popularly accessible account of the Nazi system’s terrible final phase
Financial Times -
Gripping yet scholarly … the best attempt by far to answer the complex question of why Nazi Germany carried on fighting to total self-destruction. Kershaw, the author of the best biography of Hitler, is the finest sort of academic, for he combines impeccable scholarship with an admirable clarity of thought and prose
Telegraph -
Brilliant … nuanced and sophisticated … undoubtedly a masterpiece
Mail on Sunday -
Well-written, penetrating … and ground-breaking
Evening Standard -
Magisterial … distinguished
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