The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945
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The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945

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  • Posted September 10, 2011

    more from this reviewer

    The Wall Street Journal did a positive review on this book...

    based on which I plan to acquire this book as soon as my next B&N gift card shows up from my B&N MasterCard usage, any day now.

    I find the previous review of two stars based on not being able to get the book in Nook format bizarre as it has nothing whatsoever to do with the book, and it's not unlike disliking a particular beer because it only comes in bottles instead of in cans as well.

    7 out of 13 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 1, 2013

    academic repetition

    academic repetition

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 16, 2013

    Good for kids 10+ ? I want to know because i want to read it

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 24, 2012

    Ian Kershaw's The End, once again shows his deep insight and mas

    Ian Kershaw's The End, once again shows his deep insight and mastery of the bloody and destructive era of German and European history, when Hitler's Nazi Germany tried to restore the honour of a proud nation, but instead led it towards suicide and historical damnation. Were the German people willing participants in a 12-year rule that stained the nation with genocide, the holocaust, unimaginable barbarity, occultism and fatalism? Were they fooled or forced; or where they nonchalant; and above all, was their participation out of a conviction that it was a do or die war Germany dared not lose?

    Ian Kershaw dissects these questions in ways few writers can and provides insights that no other writer has ever done. I found a lot of his views in Disciples of Fortune, a book that gave another side of WWII; and a lot of the conclusions are the same. German nationalism was whipped into frenzy by the Nazis. For Europe's second largest nationality to have more than a quarter of its population beyond its borders, spelled of confrontation in the waiting. Germans felt humiliated, and the extent of their commitment to make up for that humiliation has been explained best by this book.

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  • Posted December 26, 2011

    Where is a good editor when you need one?

    This book has a lot of excellent material well arranged. The writing, however, leaves much to be desired. A good editor would remove at least two-thirds of the commas and make a much more readable book out of it.

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  • Posted November 28, 2011

    Highly Recommend.

    A great deal of interesting information about the last months of the Nazi regime , but it doesn't answer the question of why the Germans fought on when the end was obvious.

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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    Posted March 4, 2012

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    Posted November 9, 2011

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