Five Days That Shocked the World: Eyewitness Accounts from Europe at the End of World War II

by Nicholas Best

Book Overview

In the momentous days from April 28 to May 2, 1945, the world witnessed the death of two Fascist dictators and the fall of Berlin. Mussolini's capture and execution by Italian partisans, the suicide of Adolf Hitler, and the fall of the German capital signaled the end of the four-year war in the European Theater. In "Five Days That Shocked the World," Nicholas Best thrills readers with the first-person accounts of those who lived through this dramatic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312614926
• ISBN13: 9780312614928
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Length: 369 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.4"