The Last Days of Hitler by Trevor-Roper, Hugh
The Last Days of Hitler (First Edition Papermac Softcover Release)
The Definitive, Landmark Intelligence Reconstruction of the Downfall of the Third Reich
The Definitive, Landmark Intelligence Reconstruction of the Downfall of the Third Reich
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: The Last Days of Hitler
- Author: Hugh Trevor-Roper (H.R. Trevor-Roper)
- Publisher: Papermac (An Imprint of Macmillan Publishers Ltd), London
- Publication Date: 1995
- ISBN-10: 0333642619
- ISBN-13: 9780333642610
- Edition Details: 7th Revised Edition, First Papermac Printing.
- Binding: Original publisher's premium heavy-gauge illustrated card wrappers (trade paperback),.
- Physical Format: Octavo (8vo), 228 pages. Enhanced with localized structural blueprints of the Berlin Führerbunker, secondary maps, and extensive archival index logs.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
o Exterior / Covers: The original illustrated card wrappers remain highly flat, crisp, and square. The outer perimeter boundary edges show only micro-minimal storage wear and light handling friction. The spine is completely straight, tight, unbroken, and undamaged, entirely free of the deep vertical reading creases common to thick paperbacks.
o Interior: The text block is robustly bound, tight, and immaculately preserved. Internal pages are exceptionally clean, bright, clear, and fully intact. Free of standard user highlighting, previous owner ink inscriptions, library stamps, dealer pencil markings, or dog-ears. This copy has clearly been meticulously maintained and looked after thus far.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Originally commissioned in late 1945 by British Intelligence, The Last Days of Hitler is the undisputed historical masterpiece written by MI6 officer and Oxford historian Hugh Trevor-Roper. Tasked with dispelling dangerous post-war rumors and resolving conflicting evidence surrounding the fate of Adolf Hitler, Trevor-Roper secured unprecedented access to classified American counterintelligence files and captured German prison witnesses. The resulting narrative provides a brilliant, claustrophobic reconstruction of the final ten days of Hitler's life (April 20–29, 1945) inside the subterranean Berlin bunker. It exposes a bizarre, tension-filled underworld defined by desperate delusion, terminal power struggles, and frantic betrayals among prospective Nazi successors like Goebbels, Bormann, and Göring. This classic Papermac edition remains a benchmark of investigative historiography, celebrated by academics worldwide for balancing chilling narrative pace with foundational scholarly documentation.
Originally commissioned in late 1945 by British Intelligence, The Last Days of Hitler is the undisputed historical masterpiece written by MI6 officer and Oxford historian Hugh Trevor-Roper. Tasked with dispelling dangerous post-war rumors and resolving conflicting evidence surrounding the fate of Adolf Hitler, Trevor-Roper secured unprecedented access to classified American counterintelligence files and captured German prison witnesses. The resulting narrative provides a brilliant, claustrophobic reconstruction of the final ten days of Hitler's life (April 20–29, 1945) inside the subterranean Berlin bunker. It exposes a bizarre, tension-filled underworld defined by desperate delusion, terminal power struggles, and frantic betrayals among prospective Nazi successors like Goebbels, Bormann, and Göring. This classic Papermac edition remains a benchmark of investigative historiography, celebrated by academics worldwide for balancing chilling narrative pace with foundational scholarly documentation.
Author Profile: Hugh Trevor-Roper
Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton (1914–2003), was an exceptionally distinguished British historian, intelligence analyst, and academic master who served as the Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. During World War II, his brilliant linguistic and analytical skills led him to serve within MI6, specializing in secret German radio networks. Celebrated by legendary peers like A.J.P. Taylor for his unmatched ability to synthesize truth from fractured evidence, Trevor-Roper authored foundational historical titles spanning early modern Britain, the English Civil War, and Nazi Germany. His written collections remain core institutional pillars for modern geopolitical archives and collectors of elite investigative history.
Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton (1914–2003), was an exceptionally distinguished British historian, intelligence analyst, and academic master who served as the Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. During World War II, his brilliant linguistic and analytical skills led him to serve within MI6, specializing in secret German radio networks. Celebrated by legendary peers like A.J.P. Taylor for his unmatched ability to synthesize truth from fractured evidence, Trevor-Roper authored foundational historical titles spanning early modern Britain, the English Civil War, and Nazi Germany. His written collections remain core institutional pillars for modern geopolitical archives and collectors of elite investigative history.
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