{"product_id":"9780241467268","title":"Eight Days in May : How Germany's War Ended","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Ullrich, Volker, Chase, Jefferson, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 07\/09\/2021,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 336 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Allen Lane,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Penguin Books Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Germany,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780241467268\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'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 ... an instructive lesson in how societies cope with the devastating reality of a surrender that they grimly await' Richard Overy, author of The Bombing War'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' Helmut Walser Smith, author of Germany: A Nation in its Time1 May 1945. The world did not know it yet, but the final week of the Third Reich's existence had begun.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHitler was dead, but the war had still not ended. Everything had both ground to a halt and yet remained agonizingly uncertain. Volker Ullrich's remarkable book takes the reader into a world torn between hope and terror, violence and peace.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUllrich describes how each day unfolds, with Germany now under a new Fuhrer, Admiral Doenitz, based improbably in the small Baltic town of Flensburg. With Hitler dead, Berlin in ruins and the war undoubtedly lost, the process by which the fighting would end remained horrifyingly unclear. Many major Nazis were still on the loose, wild rumours continued to circulate about a last stand in the Alps and the Western allies falling out with the Soviet Union.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAll over Europe, millions of soldiers, prisoners, slave labourers and countless exhausted, grief-stricken and often homeless families watched and waited for the war's end. Eight Days in May is the story of people, in Erich Kastner's striking phrase, stuck in 'the gap between no longer and not yet'.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41023911755929,"sku":"9780241467268","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780241467268.jpg?v=1631009928","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780241467268","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}