Final Days: Hitler's Germany 1944-45 Digital Audio Book MP3

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook of Ian Kershaw's "The End", an intense account of the final days of the Nazi regime and the collapse of a nation, is available for download. It is narrated by David Timson.The last months of the Second World War were a nightmare to live through. Unbelievable levels of violence destroyed entire cities. Millions died or were displaced. By all measures, it was the end: the end of the Third Reich and its terrible empire but also, increasingly, it seemed to be the end of European civilization itself.In his gripping, revealing new book, Ian Kershaw describes these final months, from the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in July 1944 to the German surrender in May 1945. The major question that Kershaw tries to answer is: what made Germany keep fighting? In almost every major war there has come a point where defeat loomed for one side and its rulers have cut a deal with the victors, if only in an attempt to save their own skins. In Hitler's Germany, nothing of this kind happened: in the end the regime had to be stamped out town by town with a level of brutality almost without precedent.Both a highly original piece of research and a gripping narrative, "The End" vividly portrays an era that still deeply scars Europe. It raises the most profound questions about the nature of the Second World War, about the Third Reich and about how ordinary people behave in extreme circumstances.