H.R. Trevor-Roper. First edition. Dust Jacket: None. Hardcover: Very Good+ New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. Black cloth with red lettering on spine. A solid book, with no writing or markings, 254 pp.
This was the first book written about Adolf Hitler's death. It is an in-depth look, with plenty of research, looking into his death.
This was Trevor-Roper's most commercially successful book. It emerged from his assignment as a British intelligence officer in 1945 to discover what happened in the last days of Hitler's bunker. From interviews with a range of witnesses and study of surviving documents, he demonstrates that Hitler was dead and had not escaped from Berlin. He also showed that Hitler's dictatorship was not an efficient unified machine but a hodge-podge of overlapping rivalries.
Trevor-Roper (1914-2003) was a well known English historian and Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford.
