Books like Eight Days in May by Volker Ullrich

A gripping and intimate account of the Second World War, from its start to its conclusion and beyond, capturing the complex and tragic events of one of the most pivotal eras in world history.

During Nazi-occupied Jersey, Parisian artists Lucy Schwob (Claude Cahun) and Suzanne Malherbe (Marcel Moore) launch a covert campaign of handwritten “paper bullets” to demoralize German soldiers, blending art, resistance, and queer identity.

Explore the final, decisive months of World War II through a detailed, fact‑based account of Adolf Hitler’s escape to his underground bunker, the city of Berlin, and the circumstances that ended the Third Reich.

The days from May 24 to May 28, 1940 altered the course of the history of this century, as the members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue the war. The decisive importance of these five days is the focus of John Lukacs's magisterial new book. Lukacs takes us hour by hour into the critical unfolding of events at 10 Downing Street, where Churchill and the members of his cabinet were painfully considering their war responsibilities. We see how the military disasters taking place on the Continent—particularly the plight of the nearly 400,000 British soldiers bottled up in Dunkirk—affected Churchill's fragile political situation, for he had been prime minister only a fortnight and was regarded as impetuous and hotheaded even by many of his own party. Lukacs also investigates the mood of the British people, drawing on newspaper and Mass-Observation reports that show how the citizenry, though only partly informed about the dangers that faced them, nevertheless began to support Churchill's determination to stand fast.