{"product_id":"end-p-b-w2","title":"Ian Kershaw: The End: Germany, 1944-45 [2012] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed Book of the Year by the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eScotland on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e, Ian Kershaw's \u003ci\u003eThe End\u003c\/i\u003e  is a searing account of the final months of Nazi Germany, laying bare the fear and fanaticism that drove a nation to  destruction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn almost every major war there comes a point where defeat looms for one side and its rulers cut a deal with the victors, if only in an attempt to save their own skins. In Hitler's Germany, nothing of this kind happened: in the end the regime had to be stamped out town by town with an almost unprecedented level of brutality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJust what made Germany keep on fighting?\u003cbr\u003eWhy did its rulers not cut a deal to save their own skins?\u003cbr\u003eAnd why did ordinary people continue to obey the Fuhrer's suicidal orders, with countless Germans executing their own countrymen for desertion or defeatism?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Nuanced and sophisticated ... undoubtedly a masterpiece' -\u003ci\u003e Mail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Gripping yet scholarly ... the best attempt by far to answer the complex question of why Nazi Germany carried on fighting to total self-destruction' - Antony Beevor, \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Masterly ... Kershaw's gripping and boldly intelligent work of scholarship ... will surely become the standard account of the Nazi system's terrible final phase' - \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Brilliant ... utterly terrifying' - \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Books of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kershaw, Ian","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44215939039522,"sku":"9780141014210","price":13.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":47605298790739,"sku":"XG80141014210","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Like New","offer_id":51467891573075,"sku":"XE80141014210","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/kershaw-ian-ian-kershaw-the-end-germany-1944-45-2012-paperback-58413792690515.jpg?v=1753436781","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/end-p-b-w2","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}