In Hitler's Bunker: A Boy Soldier's Eyewitness Account of the Fuhrer's Last Days Summary and Reviews

In Hitler's Bunker: A Boy Soldier's Eyewitness Account of the Fuhrer's Last Days
by Armin D. Lehmann, Tim Carroll

In Hitler's Bunker: A Boy Soldier's Eyewitness Account of the Fuhrer's Last Days
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Author: Armin D. Lehmann, Tim Carroll
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-01-01
ISBN: 1592285783
Number of pages: 232
Publisher: The Lyons Press

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Book Review: Get Trevor-Roper's book instead
Summary: 2 Stars

This is a somewhat interesting read, but unsatisfactory because it is impossible to distinguish eye-witness account from material lifted from other sources -- no such sources are listed. Many episodes are described that the (main) author cannot possibly have witnessed himself, and I find that this casts a doubt over all reported facts and episodes.

I would much rather recommend getting Hugh Trevor-Roper's remarkable book The Last Days Of Hitler, first published in 1947! Trevor-Roper's book is an extremely fascinating, detailed, well-documented and readable presentation of the last few months of the Third Reich and Hitler.

In fact, I suspect that most of the background material in Lehmann's chapters describing Berlin's last days ultimately derives from Trevor-Roper's book.

There are spelling errors in German names and terms, and mistakes that any educated editor should have spotted (e.g. Marie Sklodowska Curie was Polish, her husband French).

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