The Last Days of Hitler

By H. R. Trevor-Roper

Subjects: Last years of a person's life, Death and burial, Biography, Politics and government, Kings and rulers, Tweede Wereldoorlog, World War, 1939-1945, Last years, Heads of state, Germany, history, 1933-1945, History, Sterven, Germany, biography

Description: Late in 1945, Trevor-Roper was appointed by British Intelligence in Germany to investigate conflicting evidence surrounding Hitler’s final days and to produce a definitive report on his death. The author, who had access to American counterintelligence files and to German prisoners, focuses on the last ten days of Hitler’s life, April 20-29, 1945, in the underground bunker in Berlin—a bizarre and gripping episode punctuated by power play and competition among Hitler’s potential successors. (Source: [University of Chicago Press](https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo3626997.html))