The final week of the Third Reich's existence has begun. Volker Ullrich's remarkable book takes the reader into a world torn between hope and terror, violence and peace. Ullrich describes how each day unfolds, with Hitler dead, Berlin in ruins and the war undoubtedly lost, the process by which the fighting would end remained horrifyingly unclear. A gripping history of Germany's 'zero hour', the eight days between Hitler's death and the war's end.