Tiem and again, small numbers of Germans, civilian nad military, noble and ignoble, scheme to topple the Fuhrer, and on several occasions they came within minutes - or inches - of succeeding. Fest explores why they tried, why they found so little support either in Germany or outside it, and why they failed.

Plotting Hitler's Death: The German Resistance to Hitler, 1933-45

History

Fest, Joachim

World

Metropolitan Books

Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich

"A vivid reconstruction of the final weeks of Hitler’s regime." - Kirkus Reviews
Fest describes in riveting detail the final weeks of the war, from the desperate battles that raged night and day in the ruins of Berlin, fought by boys and old men, to the growing paranoia that marked Hitler's mental state, to his suicide and the efforts of his loyal aides to destroy his body before the advancing Russian armies reached Berlin.
 Inside Hitler's Bunker combines meticulous research with spellbinding storytelling and sheds light on events that, for those who survived them, were nothing less than the end of the world.

Europe

Picador

There is nothing in recent history that comes close to the cataclysmic events of the spring of 1945. Never before has the defeat of a nation been accompanied by such monumental loss of life, such utter destruction. Author Joachim Fest shows that the devastation was the result of Hitler's determination to take the entire country down with him; he would make sure that his enemies would find only a wasteland, where once there was a thriving civilization. Fest describes in riveting detail the final weeks of the war, from the desperate battles that raged night and day in the ruins of Berlin, fought by boys and old men, to the growing paranoia that marked Hitler's mental state--his utter disregard for the well being of both soldiers and civilians-- to his suicide and the efforts of his loyal aides to destroy his body before the advancing Russian armies reached Berlin. Inside Hitler's Bunker combines meticulous research with spellbinding storytelling and sheds light on events that, for those who survived them, were nothing less than the end of the world.

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

The author documents more than a dozen plots to assassinate Hitler, surprisingly, from conservative and military circles within Germany

Plotting Hitler's Death: The Story of German Resistance

Fest recounts in vivid detail the events leading up to the July 20, 1944 attempt by German anti-Nazi conspirators to kill Hitler with a bomb, and for the first time, brings to a popular audience the full story of the German resistance.

Holt Paperbacks

In fifteen incisive profiles, Joachim Fest, one of the greatest authorities on the Third Reich, offers a compelling and definitive examination of the lives of the most infamous Nazi leaders: the dark powers behind Hitler's throne. They include Hermann Goering: Hitler's designated successor and issuer of orders for the Final Solution; Joseph Goebbels: Reichsminister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda and the Kristallnacht mastermind; Heinrich Himmler: Reichsführer of the SS, responsible for the deaths of more than six million Jews; Martin Bormann: Hitler's private secretary, who wielded power by controlling access to the Führer; Rudolph Hess: Deputy of the Nazi Party who was tried at Nuremberg and controversially imprisoned for life; Albert Speer: "the Nazi who said sorry"; and of course, Hitler himself.

The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadership

Tauris Parke Paperbacks

Speer; The Final Verdict

Arts & Literature

Harcourt,Inc.

Staatsstreich. Der lange Weg zum 20. Juli.

Die Aufgabe, die ich mir gestellt habe, lauter Erinnerung. Die Mehzahl der Erlelbnise und Erfahrungen meines Daseins sind, wie bei jedem, ins Vergessen zuruckgefallen. Denn das Gedachtnis ist unausgesetzt dabei, das eine auszusondern, anderes an dessen Stelle zu rucken ode durch neue Einsichten zu ubelagern. Der Prozess hat kein Ende; blicke ich die lange Strecke zuruck, drangt eine Flut von Bildern heran, alle wirr und zufallig. Im Augenblick des Geschehens verband sich kein Gedanke damit, und rst nach Jahren gelangte ich dzu, die verbogenen Wasserzeichen in den Lebenspapieren zu entdecken und womoglich zu lesen.

Ich nicht: Erinnerungen an eine Kindheit und Jugend

Rowohlt Verlag, GmbH

Der Untergang (German Edition)

Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH

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Plotting Hitler's Death: The German Resistance to Hitler, 1933-45

Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich

Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich

Plotting Hitler's Death: The Story of German Resistance

Plotting Hitler's Death: The Story of German Resistance

The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadership

Speer; The Final Verdict

Staatsstreich. Der lange Weg zum 20. Juli.

Ich nicht: Erinnerungen an eine Kindheit und Jugend

Der Untergang (German Edition)