What made Germany keep fighting to the death, even when it was clear it would lose the Second World War? Why did its rulers not cut a deal to save their own skins? And why did ordinary people continue to obey the Fuhrer`s suicidal orders, with countless Germans executing their own countrymen for desertion or defeatism? Ian Kershaw`s searing account takes us into the heart of the Third Reich`s final months, laying bare the fear and fanaticism that drove a nation to destruction.