The End The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1944-1945 Kershaw

9780143122135

From the book: "Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the equally vital question of how and why it was able to hold out as long as it did. The Third Reich did not surrender until Germany had been left in ruins and almost completely occupied. Drawing on prodigious new research, award-winning historian Ian Kershaw explores these fascinating questions in this landmark work, a gripping and focused narrative that begins with the failed bomb plot to assassinate Hitler in July 1944 and ends with the German capitulation in 1945."