A thrilling account of one of the most dramatic final acts in modern history: the collapse of the Third Reich. describes in vivid detail the claustrophobic atmosphere of the Fuhrer's bunker during the bitter last days of the war when, drugged and enfeebled, Hitler veered between hysterical despair and lunatic optimism while his regime disintegrated amid desperate acts of betrayal, recrimination and suicide.

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

History

Joachim Fest

Europe

Pan/Macmillan

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

Phoenix Paperbacks

Albert Speer is the great Enigma of Nazi Germany. Before he was thirty he had become Hitler's architect. Soon he was building the new Reich's Chancellory and had transformed the Nuremberg rallies with his cathedrals of light' and gift for stage management. In 1942 Hitler appointed him his Armaments Minister and Speer quadrupled German arms production, keeping the German Army in the field and prolonging the war. Joachim Fest examines all the phases of Speer's life and work. Precisely because of Speer's contradictions, Fest sees him as representative of the mood and susceptibilities of the German people of the time. In this brilliant and persuasive book Fest argues that Albert Speer's life helps to explain how Germany broke with its traditions in 1933 and descended so far into crime and barbarism. This book is a crowning achievement for the writer who pioneered a new school of biographical writing in the 1960s with his FACE OF THE THIRD REICH and his masterly Hitler biography, which has become a classic.

Speer : The Final Verdict

Phoenix_Press

One of the New York Times Books Review's 100 Notable Books of 2014!A portrait of an intellectually rigorous German household opposed  to  the Nazis and how its members suffered for their political stanceFew   writers have deepened our understanding of the Third Reich as much as   German historian, biographer, journalist, and critic Joachim Fest. His   biography of Adolf Hitler has reached millions of readers around the   world. Born in 1926, Fest experienced firsthand the rise of the Nazis,   the Second World War, and a catastrophically defeated Germany, thus   becoming a vital witness to these difficult years.In this memoir   of his childhood and youth, Fest offers a far-reaching view of how he   experienced the war and National Socialism. True to the German Bildung tradition,   Fest grows up immersed in the works of Goethe, Schiller, Mörike,  Rilke,  Kleist, Mozart, and Beethoven. His father, a conservative  Catholic  teacher, opposes the Nazi regime and as a result loses his job  and  status. Fest is forced to move to a boarding school in the  countryside  that he despises, and in his effort to come to terms with  his father’s  strong political convictions, he embarks on a tireless  quest for  knowledge and moral integrity that will shape the rest of his  life and  writing career.

Not I: A German Childhood

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

ATLANTIC BOOKS *

Plotting Hitler's Death by Joachim Fest.

Plotting Hitler's Death

World

Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )

Im Gegenlicht. Eine italienische Reise.

Staatsstreich. Der lange Weg zum 20. Juli.

Kaum ein anderer hat unser Verständnis vom Dritten Reich so sehr geprägt wie Joachim Fest. Doch wie hat er selbst diese Zeit und die Nachkriegsjahre erlebt? In seinen als Meisterwerk gefeierten Erinnerungen erzählt er vom katholischen Elternhaus in Berlin, dem Berufsverbot für den Vater, dem eigenen Schulverweis, Kriegsdienst und Gefangenschaft. Entstanden ist das Porträt einer Familie, die sich den Nazis verweigerte.«Ein außerordentliches Erinnerungsbuch.»Der Spiegel«Das Bild dieser Familie mit ihrem unverwechselbaren Ton ist schlechterdings hinreißend. Man schaut sich um in der deutschen Literatur nach einer Parallele und findet keine.»Süddeutsche Zeitung«Eine faszinierende Lektüre.»Die Zeit«Kraftvoll und einzigartig.»International Herald Tribune«Wenn ich nicht dagegen wäre, Zustimmung mit Hilfe von Superlativen auszudrücken, würde ich sagen, dieser Vater ist für mich die größte Figur des vergangenen Jahrhunderts.»Martin Walser«Die Klarheit und die Eleganz, die den Duktus Joachim Fests von jeher auszeichnen, machen diese Erinnerungen nicht nur zu einem zeitgeschichtlich-dokumentarischen, sondern auch zu einem literarischen Glücksfall.»Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung«Ein Erinnerungsbuch eines Deutschen, das mit größerer Präzision geschrieben ist, wird sich über die NS-Zeit kaum finden lassen.»Frankfurter Rundschau

Ich nicht Erinnerungen an eine Kindheit und Jugend

Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag Gmb

Hitler: Eine Biographic

Spiegel-Verlag

Hitler - Vol. 2 (Em Portugues do Brasil)

Nova Fronteira

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