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Five Days that Shocked the World (General Military)

Five Days that Shocked the World (General Military)

by NicholasBest (Author)

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    Hardcover 2012

    $3.36
Synopsis

April 1945. The mutilated bodies of Mussolini and his mistress hang by their heels in Milan while a hostile crowd whistles and jeers. Desperate to avoid the same fate, Adolf Hitler leaves orders for his own body to be burned after his death. With the Russian Army closing in on Berlin and his world crashing in to flames, Germany's doomed leader would never allow his enemies the satisfaction of desecrating his corpse. This is the story of an immensely exciting few days, but it is also a snapshot of the whole world at the end of an extraordinary week. Nicholas Best tells a compelling tale of the men and women from all around the world who experienced the final chaotic days of World War II. Fast-paced, at times brutal and at others poignant, this page-turner of a book recreates the dying days of the Axis powers as the Allied armies closed in on Berlin.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 328
 Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: 20 Mar 2012
ISBN 10: 1849089469
ISBN 13: 9781849089463
Book Overview: A unique snapshot of European and world history at the most significant crossroads in world history told through eyewitness accounts.

Media Reviews
A gripping account of the last days of World War II... The book provides a clear picture of the immensely varied events - most tragic and horrifying, some poignant and hopeful - that rolled out as that most awful of wars finally come to an end in Europe. It reads like a thriller, informs like a scholar, and is not be missed. -- Randall Hansen, author of Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Britain Scintillating... A miscellany of tragedy mixed with delight. -- Literary Review, praise for The Greatest Day in History Reading it is like looking into a photograph album full of vivid snaps of the world taken during a week of high tension, crisis, celebration, tragedy and illusion. -- Daily Mail, praise for The Greatest Day in History
Author Bio
Nicholas Best grew up in Kenya, of Anglo-Irish origin, and was educated there, in England, and at Trinity College, Dublin. He served a spell in Britain's Grenadier Guards, during which he was airlifted to Belize to prevent its invasion by Guatemalan tanks an experience that gave him his first short story (in Penthouse) and a satirical novel Where were you at Waterloo? Thereafter he worked in London as a financial journalist before becoming a full time writer. He is the author of Happy Valley: the story of the English in Kenya, Tennis and the Masai (a comic novel later serialised on BBC Radio 4), and more than a dozen history books, including the critically acclaimed Trafalgar and The Greatest Day in History: How the Great War Really Ended. His work has been translated into several foreign languages. He has written also for BBC radio, the Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Sunday Times and the Times Literary Supplement etc. He lives in Cambridge, England.