March New Release - Five Days that Shocked the World

Title: Five Days that Shocked the World

             

Subtitle: Eyewitness Accounts from Europe 

at the End of World War II

                 

Author/s: Nicholas Best

RRP: $34.99

ISBN: 9781849089463

Format:  Hardback, 328 pages

Dimensions: 23.3cm x 15.2cm

Publisher: Osprey Publishing

Aust. Release Date:  March 2012

Book Description/Synopsis:

April 1945 - the mutilated bodies of Mussolini and his mistress hang by their heels in Milan while a hostile crowd whistles and jeers. Desperate to avoid the same fate, Adolf Hitler leaves orders for his own body to be burned after his death. With the Russian Army closing in on Berlin and his world crashing into flames, Germany’s doomed leader would never allow his enemies the satisfaction of desecrating his corpse. This is the story of an immensely exciting few days, but it is also a snapshot of the whole world at the end of an extraordinary week. Nicholas Best tells a compelling tale of the men and women from all around the world who experienced the final chaotic days of World War II. Fast-paced, at times brutal and at others poignant, this page-turner of a book recreates the dying days of the Axis powers as the Allied armies closed in on Berlin.