The Bunker : The History of the Reich Chancellery Group

420 Pages·1979·44.445 MB·English

by  James P. O’Donnell

HITLER'S
LAST DAYS
AND
SUICIDE
by James O'Donnell
P.

Praise for
THE BUNKER
"Superb Quite simply the most accurate and
. . .
terrifying account of the nightmare and its end I
have ever read."
—
Theodore H. White, author of
The Making ofthe President
"A riveting, damned near incredible story
. . ,
Nothing I've read on the subject reveals so
vividly the psychopaths, quasi-criminals and
looneys who made up the entourage around
Germany's demon king/'
—
Gerald Green,
author of Holocaust
**A powerfully vivid documentary reconstruction
ofAdolf Hitlei^s final days,'* *
—TheNew York Times
**A fresh, authoritative look at a crucial period of
WW WW
II. . . . Even if youre sated with II
books, this highly readable, splendidly paced
account is well worth your time." —
Business Week
**[A] spellbinder. OT)onnell projects the
. . .
spooky feehng of one who has a pipelin—e to evil.**
Newsday
Terhaps the most readable, intelligent, compre-
hensive and accurate account of the coUapse of
the high command since Last Days was pub-
lished in 1947. Mr. OTDonnell has a fluent
. . .
pen and his book is as unputdownable as a
FrederickForsyth thrill—er."
Paperback Buyer (England)
**Aspellbinding journey."
•^Washington Post
**The tale is enormous. . . . Mr. OTDonnell's
account of the three-pronged breakout of the
bunker crew after Hitlers suicide and the appall-
ing self-destruction of the Goebbels family is the
most detailed and dramatic yet. The analysis
. . .
of Martin Bormann's final movements and suicide
is convincing." —
New Yorker
"A fresh, exciting account of the last few months
of Adolf Hitlers life. . . —. O'Donnell's prose
leaves nothing to be desired it's not only never
dull, but it is also witty, and even at times un-
pretentiously learned.'*
—
Kirkua
**The definitive account of the last days in
Fiihrers headqWuarWters. . . . The volume deserves
to be in every II collection."
—
Library Journal

BUNKER
THE
The History of the Reich
Group
Chancellery
O'Donnell
James P.
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THE BUNKER
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PRINTING HISTORY
Houghton Mifflin edition published November 1978
3 printings through February 1979
Book-of-the-Month Club edition January 1979
History Book Club edition January 1979
Macmillan Book Club edition February 1979
Serialized in book digest April 1979
Bantam edition/December 1979
The drawing on page 46 and the map on page271
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