Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself

The extraordinary German bestseller on the final days of the Third ReichA Times and Telegraph Book of the YearOne of the last untold stories of the Third Reich is that of the extraordinary wave of suicides, carried out not just by much of the Nazi leadership, but by thousands of ordinary Germans, in the war's closing period. Some of these were provoked by straightforward terror in the face of advancing Soviet troops or by personal guilt, but many could not be explained in such relatively straig ...