About the Author

NICHOLAS BEST grew up in Kenya and was educated there, in England, and at Trinity College, Dublin. He served in the Grenadier Guards and worked as a journalist in London. He was the "Financial Times" fiction critic for ten years and is the author of "The Greatest Day in History," a narrative on the end of World War I.

Reviews

A gripping account of the last days of World War II. Written from the perspective of individuals--some famous then, almost all famous thereafter--who experienced the dreadful days, the book provides a clear picture of the immensely varied events, most tragic and horrifying, some poignant and hopeful--that rolled out as that most awful of wars finally came to an end in Europe. It reads like a thriller, informs like a scholar, and is not to be missed. "Randall Hansen, author of Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Britain" Reading it is like looking into a photograph album full of vivid snaps of the world taken during a week of high tension, crisis, celebration, tragedy and illusion. "DAILY MAIL on THE GREATEST DAY IN HISTORY" Scintillating ... a miscellany of tragedy mixed with delight. "LITERARY REVIEW on THE GREATEST DAY IN HISTORY""

"A gripping account of the last days of World War II. Written from the perspective of individuals--some famous then, almost all famous thereafter--who experienced the dreadful days, the book provides a clear picture of the immensely varied events, most tragic and horrifying, some poignant and hopeful--that rolled out as that most awful of wars finally came to an end in Europe. It reads like a thriller, informs like a scholar, and is not to be missed." --Randall Hansen, author of "Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Britain
"UK Praise for THE GREATEST DAY IN HISTORY:
"Reading it is like looking into a photograph album full of vivid snaps of the world taken during a week of high tension, crisis, celebration, tragedy and illusion."--DAILY MAIL
"Scintillating ... a miscellany of tragedy mixed with delight."--LITERARY REVIEW