Endgame, 1945 : the missing final chapter of World War II
David Stafford.
- 1st American ed.
- New York : Little, Brown, 2007.
- xix, 581 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Includes Index
Friday, 20 April 1945 -- 20-30 April 1945 (Himmler's bid, Boulevard of broken dreams, Alpine refuge) -- Hitler's death to VE Day: Dealing with the Nazis, The Cap Arcona, the end of Hitler's Reich, Hitler's loot -- VE Day to Potsdam: Iron Curtain, Berlin, Monday, 16 July 1945, Other beasts in other lairs.
A narrative chronicle of the three months following VE Day traces the experiences of nine individuals who witnessed the Allied struggle to bring the war to a close, covering such topics as the deaths of Hitler and Mussolini and the liberation of Dachau.