{"product_id":"9780141982434-secondhand-the-end-germany-1944-45","title":"The End: Germany 1944-45","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the dying months of the Second World War, as Allied forces closed in from both east and west, Nazi Germany refused to capitulate — and The End: Germany 1944-45 chronicles this harrowing final chapter with unflinching precision, asking one of history's most urgent questions: why did a nation continue to fight a war that was so catastrophically and obviously lost? Acclaimed historian Ian Kershaw presents a masterful, ground-level account of Germany's collapse, tracing the political paralysis, fanatical loyalty, and systemic terror that kept the Wehrmacht fighting and the civilian population enduring months of needless devastation long after any rational hope of victory had vanished.\n\nKershaw argues with commanding authority that the answer lies not in any single ideology or individual, but in the very structure of the Nazi state — a machinery of coercion and belief so totalising that surrender became, for many, unthinkable. Drawing on a vast array of diaries, military records, and eyewitness testimonies, his narrative is both sweeping in its historical scope and intimate in its human detail, illuminating the terrifying momentum of a regime consuming itself and its people. For anyone seeking to understand how civilisations fracture under the weight of their own delusions, this is essential, deeply unsettling reading.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50736428450011,"sku":"9780141982434-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/c947c12f-2b8c-42c0-8b04-9eeb6478a74e.png?v=1792122973","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780141982434-secondhand-the-end-germany-1944-45","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}