A powerfully vivid documentary reconstruction of Adolf Hitler's final days. --New York Times
Here is an unforgettable, graphic account of the final days in the F?hrer's headquarters, deep under the shattered city of Berlin as World War II in Europe drew to a close. From James P. O'Donnell's interviews with fifty eyewitnesses to the madness and carnage--everyone from Albert Speer to generals, staff officers, doctors, Hitler's personal pilot, telephone operators, and secretaries--emerges an account that historian Theodore H. White has hailed as superb . . . quite simply the most accurate and terrifying account of the nightmare and its end I have ever read.
A riveting, damned near incredible (but true) story. --Gerald Green, author ofHolocaust
James P. O'Donnellserved as a captain in the Signal Corps in Europe during World War II and in 1945 became the first bureau chief for
Newsweekin Germany. His writing appeared in the
New York Times Magazine, Fortune,and the
Washington Post.He died in 1990.