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Endgame, 1945: The Missing Final Chapter of World War II
by David Stafford
from Little, Brown and Company

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Depends what you're looking for
  If you're looking for a miltary-centric exposition of the last days of world war 2 in europe, you'll be disappointed with this. There is no discussion of which force did what, when and why. There are no maps with thrusts and front lines, offensives and retreats, battles.
  What it is is a chronicle of aftermath. The aftermath of conquest and defeat, death camps and the implosion of two countries (Italy and Germany) from within the massive conflagration they initiated. Carrying the narrative is a number... more info

• Descriptive end of the Nazi regime...
  I've found many similarities between this book and Antony Beevor's haunting tome "The Fall of Berlin 1945". Although "Endgame 1945" ups the ante and surpasses Beevor with its far richer character development. I've found it to be profoundly moving and an accurate witness to the unimaginable horrors created in the death throes of the Third Reich.

• Endgame, 1945: David Stafford brutal portrait of a Europe in hell during the last days of World War II
  In the beginning of this outstanding account of the last days of World War II there is a gripping quotation from General William Tecumseh Sherman:
  "I am sick and tired of war. It's glory is all moonshine...War is Hell."
  If you still doubt that lesson then you should read this book. Stafford focuses on nine individuals, their stories and how their personal biographies were intertwined with larger events as the war in Europe drew to an end in the spring of 1945.
  We see Robert Ellis an... more info

• Still missing
  I am clearly going against the grain of other reviewers. Stylistically, this book reads like a true-crime story. While the individual stories are for the most part very interesting, they don't begin to write the final chapter on the war in Europe. The last 25 pages of Herbert A. Werner's "Iron Coffins" do a better job of conveying the scope and scale of immediate post-war Europe. I finished the book still looking for a lot more.

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