Eight Days in May
How Germany's War Ended
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Superb ... excellent and admirably succinct.
Superb ... excellent and admirably succinct.
Ullrich delivers
a punchy account that is a proper page-turner
... there is still plenty to say about immediate postwar Germany.
Strongly written and deeply researched
... a
vital and often vibrant
account of eight days when people all across Europe were suspended in confusion and chaos.
The last days of the Third Reich have often been told, but seldom with the
verve, perception and elegance
of Volker Ulrich's rich narrative. For Western nations that have never faced comprehensive and destructive defeat, this is
an instructive lesson in how societies cope with the devastating reality of a surrender that they grimly await.
A fast-paced, brilliant recounting of the turbulent last days of the Third Reich.
With all the energy and chaos of a Jackson Pollock canvas,
Eight Days in May
evokes the complete and utter chaos of a collapsing society.
The last chapter of the Nazi regime, just before its fall, is perhaps the most interesting. And Volker Ulrich manages to cover the days after Hitler's suicide with
brilliant prose, and excellent original resea
rch.
Ullrich's
compact, gripping narration
brings to life the death throes of the Nazi regime as individual acts of delusion, desperation and resignation. This vivid mosaic of German reactions to defeat is
a suspenseful account and original depiction
of the ambivalence and disbelief of those who had been spellbound by Hitler.
Volker Ullrich
is a historian and journalist whose previous books include biographies of Bismarck and Napoleon, as well as a major study of Imperial Germany,
The Nervous Superpower, 1871-1918
. Ullrich was for many years editor of the political books review section of
Die Zeit
. His two-volume biography of Adolf Hitler was a German bestseller.
Jefferson Chase
is a writer, translator and journalist based in Berlin. He has translated more than a dozen German texts into English, including Volker Ullrich's acclaimed two-volume biography of Hitler.