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The Bunker
Paperback / softback
Main Details
| Title |
The Bunker
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) James O'donnell
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:424 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 151,Width 227 |
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| Category/Genre | Military history |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780306809583
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| Classifications | Dewey:943.086092 |
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| Audience | | Undergraduate | | Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly | | Professional & Vocational | | General | |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Hachette Books
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| Imprint |
Da Capo Press Inc
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| Publication Date |
1 March 2001 |
| Publication Country |
United States
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Description
A compulsively readable account of Hitler's last days, written by one of the first Americans to enter Hitler's bunker after the fall of Berlin. Here is an unforgettable, graphic account of the final days in the F hrer's headquarters, deep under the shattered city of Berlin as World War II in Europe drew to a close. From James P. O'Donnell's interviews with fifty eyewitnesses to the madness and carnageeveryone from Albert Speer to generals, staff officers, doctors, Hitler's personal pilot, telephone operators, and secretariesemerges an account that historian Theodore H. White has hailed as "superb ...quite simply the most accurate and terrifying account of the nightmare and its end I have ever read. "
Author Biography
James P. O'Donnell served as a captain in the Signal Corps in Europe during World War II and in 1945 became the first bureau chief for Newsweek in Germany. His writing appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Fortune, and the Washington Post. He died in 1990.
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