Inside Hitler's Bunker

A thrilling account of one of the most dramatic final acts in modern history: the collapse of the Third Reich. Now part of the Picador Collection

A compelling account of the dramatic last days of Hitler and the Third Reich by the great German historian, Joachim Fest.

'Unputdownable' - Sunday Times

'Nobody has written a better account' – Observer

In Inside Hitler's Bunker, Joachim Fest, Germany’s greatest historian of Nazism describes in vivid detail the claustrophobic atmosphere of the Fuhrer's bunker during the bitter last days of the war. Drugged and enfeebled, Hitler veered between hysterical despair and lunatic optimism while his regime disintegrated amid desperate acts of betrayal, recrimination and suicide.

'Such pace, drama and immediacy that one could almost believe he had been an eye-witness' - The Spectator

'There has never been a more evocative account' - Daily Mail

Now in the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.