'Meticulous... Probably the most disturbing portrait of Hitler I have ever read' Dominic
Sandbrook Sunday TimesBy the summer of 1939 Hitler was at the zenith of his power. Yet despite
initial triumphs in the early stages of war the Führer's fortunes would turn dramatically as
the conflict raged on. Realising that victory was lost and with Soviet troops closing in on
his Berlin bunker Hitler committed suicide in April 1945 one week later Nazi Germany
surrendered. His murderous ambitions had not only annihilated his own country but had cost the
lives of millions across Europe. In the final volume of this landmark biography Volker Ullrich
argues that the very qualities - and the defects - that accounted for Hitler's popularity and
rise to power were what brought about his ruin. A keen strategist and meticulous military
commander he was also a deeply insecure gambler who could be shaken by the smallest setback
and was quick to blame subordinates for his own disastrous mistakes.Drawing on a wealth of new
sources and scholarship this is the definitive portrait of the man who dragged the world into
chaos.
