Books like In Hitler's Bunker by Armin D. Lehmann

Ian Kershaw's Hitler offers an intimate and compelling biography of Adolf Hitler, focusing on his rise to power through vivid descriptions of key events and figures in Germany's history. The author's research is supported by many previously untapped sources, bringing us closer to understanding the mysterious and controversial figure that Hitler was.

Judicial historian Joachim Fest recounts the final weeks of the Third Reich, detailing Hitler’s orders to destroy Germany’s infrastructure and the desperate battles in Berlin leading to the dictator’s suicide and the bunker’s fall.

James P. O'Donnell, a Signal Corps Intelligence officer in World War II and a Newsweek correspondent, has written a fresh, exciting account of the last few months of Adolf Hitler's life, that period during which the warlord of the Third Reich buried himself in his bunker while his empire and his entourage disintegrated. There is much here that is already known, but O'Donnell's interviews with some 50 WW II survivors who were actually in Hitler's bunker at various times, has led to some fascinating and convincing speculations. O'Donnell makes a good case, for example, that a secret agent (known as ""Mata O'Hara"") was able to operate at the very fringes of Hitler's inner circle. He proves, as well, that Martin Bormann is as dead as Hitler, and reveals that the first Russians to enter the bunker were not soldiers, but Russian women in search of Eva Braun's discarded clothes. And what is already public knowledge--Hitler's weakening and escape into fantasy, the confusion and waste of the last defense of Berlin, the attempts by Hitler's entourage to escape the oncoming Russians--is here supported and embellished with new evidence: Albert Speer's written recollections of those days, for instance, are supplemented and broadened by his personal interviews with the author. O'Donnell's prose leaves nothing to be desired--it is not only never dull, but it is also witty, and even at times unpretentiously learned. An exciting treatment of a ghoulishly interesting topic.

"Inside the Third Reich is a memoir written by Albert Speer, the Nazi Minister of Armaments from 1942 to 1945, serving as Adolf Hitler's main architect before this period. It is considered to be one of the most detailed descriptions of the inner workings and leadership of Nazi Germany but is controversial because of Speer's lack of discussion of Nazi atrocities and questions regarding his degree of awareness or involvement with them." --