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Gripping narrative based on the author's interviews with senior German officers imprisoned after defeat and capture 'The best and most vivid account of the German collapse' - Hugh Trevor Roper With an introduction by Max Hastings

About the Author

Milton Shulman fought at Normandy as an Intelligence Officer with the Canadian Armoured Corps. After the war he interviewed many of the German Army's most senior generals, whose candid observations on their military performance, and the nature of the regime, form the substance of this book. After the war, Milton Shulman became known as a London theatre and film critic, a writer and novelist, and a political commentator of note. He was latterly editor of the London Evening Standard.