Fallen Eagle: The Last Days of the Third Reich

by Robin Cross

Book Overview

Critical acclaim for FALLEN EAGLE "Mesmerizing account of those final, bloody weeks of war . . . Cross's account of the F'hrer's final, hysterical days in his Berlin bunker is masterful." - Sunday... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471164089
• ISBN13: 9780471164081
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

The end of the Third Reich.

I have read Cross's book about Kursk (Citadel) and I thought this would also be a nice read. It was, even though the author trods on some well written ground with the end of the Third Reich. There are no new discoveries in this book, just how Hitler was a complete military failure at the end of the war. Hitler's decisions helped the Allies end the war early. Hitler was his own worst enemy. The book covers both the Eastern and Western fronts. Military strategy is the prime focus. The book does relate some personal stories on the last days of the Reich. In the last days, the personal toll was heavy, and Hitler's health started to go downhill quite rapidly. As related in the book, when Hitler died, he was 56, but medically he was closer to seventy, and the Parkinson's disease was spreading fast. This is a nice read on the last days of the Third Reich. There have been other books about this time period (Toland's The Last Hundred Days), but this is an above average read.

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This book is a great, detailed description of the last days of the Third Reich. The coverage of the last days with Hitler is as good as "The Bunker". What is not commonly known is that the last fighting in Germany was some of the hardest fought of the whole war, the German war machine was against the wall and the best was expected from its troops. The details of the troops in the filed followed up with details form the men in charge were really well put together. This moved very well into the Yalta conference and the impressions the leaders there had which differed somewhat from the men in the field. This is just and all around great book, full of wonderful stories and an arm load of detail. If you are interested in the part of the war then you should buy this book.