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Endgame, 1945: The Missing Final Chapter of World War II
by: David Stafford

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5421
EAN: 9780316109802
ISBN: 0316109800
Label: Little, Brown and Company
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 608
Publication Date: November 12, 2007
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Studio: Little, Brown and Company
Sales Rank: 128206

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
To end a history of World War II at VE Day is to leave the tale half told. While the war may have seemed all but over by Hitler's final birthday (April 20), Stafford's chronicle of the three months that followed tells a different, and much richer, story.

ENDGAME 1945 highlights the gripping personal stories of nine men and women, ranging from soldiers to POWs to war correspondents, who witnessed firsthand the Allied struggle to finish the terrible game at last. Through their ground-level movements, Stafford traces the elaborate web of events that led to the war's real resolution: the deaths of Hitler and Mussolini, the liberation of Buchenwald and Dachau, and the Allies' race with the Red Army to establish a victors' foothold in Europe, to name a few. From Hitler's April decision never to surrender to the start of the Potsdam Conference, Stafford brings an unprecedented focus to the war's "final chapter."

Narrative history at its most compelling, ENDGAME 1945 is the riveting story of three turbulent months that truly shaped the modern world.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- An excellent book to get a feel for the history of the last month of WWII
I recommend this book to everyone who is interested in the history of the last month of WWII. I realized that I did not know anything about WWII after the event of Market Garden other than that the war was over in May 1945. This book gives a surprising and apparently well researched insight in some events of that last month. I enjoyed reading this text and I feel that it made me smarter about the history of WWII and therefore about present day events.

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- Depends what you're looking for
If you're looking for a miltary-centric exposition of the last days of world war 2 in europe, you'll be disappointed with this. There is no discussion of which force did what, when and why. There are no maps with thrusts and front lines, offensives and retreats, battles.

What it is is a chronicle of aftermath. The aftermath of conquest and defeat, death camps and the implosion of two countries (Italy and Germany) from within the massive conflagration they initiated. Carrying the narrative is a number of real people caught up in the maelstrom of the defeat of the axis powers. These range from the daughter of Ulrich Von Hassell, who carries the burden of sippenhaft (family debt) for her father. This involves losing her children, trips through camps as an inmate with other prominent ... Read More

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- Descriptive end of the Nazi regime...
I've found many similarities between this book and Antony Beevor's haunting tome "The Fall of Berlin 1945". Although "Endgame 1945" ups the ante and surpasses Beevor with its far richer character development. I've found it to be profoundly moving and an accurate witness to the unimaginable horrors created in the death throes of the Third Reich.

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- Endgame, 1945: David Stafford brutal portrait of a Europe in hell during the last days of World War II
In the beginning of this outstanding account of the last days of World War II there is a gripping quotation from General William Tecumseh Sherman:
"I am sick and tired of war. It's glory is all moonshine...War is Hell."
If you still doubt that lesson then you should read this book. Stafford focuses on nine individuals, their stories and how their personal biographies were intertwined with larger events as the war in Europe drew to an end in the spring of 1945.
We see Robert Ellis an American soldier undergoing the horrific final battles in Northern Italy. British commando Bryan Samain goes through Germany in a journey bearing an affinity to Dante's travels in the lower reaches of hell. Francesa Wilson was a British woman who worked in several refugee camps in Europe. She ministered ... Read More

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- Still missing
I am clearly going against the grain of other reviewers. Stylistically, this book reads like a true-crime story. While the individual stories are for the most part very interesting, they don't begin to write the final chapter on the war in Europe. The last 25 pages of Herbert A. Werner's "Iron Coffins" do a better job of conveying the scope and scale of immediate post-war Europe. I finished the book still looking for a lot more.

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