"The full sweep of the cataclysmic ending of World War II."
"A hundred stories fill out these hundred days - portraits, battle plans, ironies, feats of espionage, mass brutalities, insanity, diplomats, generals, soldiers, snipers, the cool and the fanatic. Hitler's horoscope, what General Eisenhower was reading on the morning of surrender, Quisling's final auto ride, orders, counter-orders, impatitnt statesmen, conflicting strategies, the stench of fire and death, telegrams to Moscow, plunging armies, straggling refugees...In fascinating and exhaustively researched detail - it is all here!"
"A hundred stories fill out these hundred days - portraits, battle plans, ironies, feats of espionage, mass brutalities, insanity, diplomats, generals, soldiers, snipers, the cool and the fanatic. Hitler's horoscope, what General Eisenhower was reading on the morning of surrender, Quisling's final auto ride, orders, counter-orders, impatitnt statesmen, conflicting strategies, the stench of fire and death, telegrams to Moscow, plunging armies, straggling refugees...In fascinating and exhaustively researched detail - it is all here!"
