| Record Number |
881590 |
| ISBN |
9780241467268 (hardback) |
| Author |
Ullrich, Volker, 1943- author. |
| Title |
Eight days in May : how Germany's war ended / Volker Ullrich ; translated by Jefferson Chase. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : Allen Lane, 2021. |
| ©2021 |
| Pagination etc. |
xii, 322 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents note |
Originally published as: Acht Tage im Mai : die letzte Woche des Dritten Reches. München : Verlag C.H. Beck oHG, c2020. |
| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents note |
May 1, 1945 -- May 2, 1945 -- May 3, 1945 -- May 4, 1945 -- May 5, 1945 -- May 6, 1945 -- May 7, 1945 -- May 8, 1945. |
| Summary Note |
The world did not know it yet, but the final week of the Third Reich's existence had begun. Hitler was dead, but the war had still not ended. Everything had both ground to a halt and yet remained agonizingly uncertain. Volker Ullrich's remarkable book takes the reader into a world torn between hope and terror, violence and peace. Ullrich describes how each day unfolds, with Germany now under a new F hrer, Admiral D nitz, based improbably in the small Baltic town of Flensburg. With Hitler dead, Berlin in ruins and the war undoubtedly lost, the process by which the fighting would end remained horrifyingly unclear. Many major Nazis were still on the loose, wild rumours continued to circulate about a last stand in the Alps and the Western allies falling out with the Soviet Union. All over Europe, millions of soldiers, prisoners, slave labourers and countless exhausted, grief-stricken and often homeless families watched and waited for the war's end. Eight Days in May is the story of people, in Erich K stner's striking phrase, stuck in 'the gap between no longer and not yet'. |
| Language note |
Translated from the German. |
| Subject - Name |
Hitler, Adolf, -- 1889-1945 -- Death and burial |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany |
| Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 |
| Germany -- History -- 1945-1955 |
| Germany -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945 |
| Added Author |
Chase, Jefferson S. translator. |
| Shelf Location |
943.0864 ULLR |
