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The Bunker

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

The Bunker

Contributors:

By (Author) James O'donnell

ISBN:

9780306809583

Publisher:

Hachette Books

Imprint:

Da Capo Press Inc

Publication Date:

22nd February 2001

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Dewey:

943.086092

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

424

Dimensions:

Width 227mm, Height 151mm, Spine 25mm

Weight:

568g

Description

A compulsively readable account of Hitler's last days, written by one of the first Americans to enter Hitler's bunker after the fall of Berlin. Here is an unforgettable, graphic account of the final days in the F hrer's headquarters, deep under the shattered city of Berlin as World War II in Europe drew to a close. From James P. O'Donnell's interviews with fifty eyewitnesses to the madness and carnageeveryone from Albert Speer to generals, staff officers, doctors, Hitler's personal pilot, telephone operators, and secretariesemerges an account that historian Theodore H. White has hailed as "superb ...quite simply the most accurate and terrifying account of the nightmare and its end I have ever read. "

Author Bio

James P. O'Donnell served as a captain in the Signal Corps in Europe during World War II and in 1945 became the first bureau chief for Newsweek in Germany. His writing appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Fortune, and the Washington Post. He died in 1990.

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