Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself

One of the least understood stories of the Third Reich is that of the extraordinary wave of suicides, carried out not just by the Nazi leadership, but also by thousands of ordinary Germans during the war's closing period. Huber describes some of the key events from the First World War to the end of the Second which shaped the period. Its sudden end was for many, simply impossible to absorb. A Times and Telegraph Book of the Year.