PENGUIN ORANGE SPINES : EVA BRAUN – HEIKE B. GORTEMAKER-DAMION SEARLS

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 Gortemaker 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