DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR and BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK CLUB title
''I want to be a beautiful corpse, I will take poison'' Eva Braun, 1945
Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler were together for fourteen years, a relationship that ended only with their marriage and double suicide in Berlin.
So who was Eva Braun? Heike G-rtemaker''s highly praised book is the first to take Braun''s role in the Nazi hierarchy seriously. It uses her to throw fascinating light on a regime that prided itself on its harsh, coherent and unsentimental ideology, but which was in practice a chaos of competing individuals fighting for space around the overwhelmingly dominant figure of Hitler.
''Finally gives Braun her place in the dark history of the Third Reich'' Wall Street Journal
