Eight Days in MayA gripping history of Germany's 'zero hour', the eight days between Hitler's death and the war's end. 1 May 1945. The world did not know it yet, but the final week of the Third Reich's existence had begun. Hitler was dead, but the war had still not ended. Everything had both ground to a halt and yet remained agonisingly uncertain. Volker Ullrich's remarkable book takes the reader into a world torn between hope and terror, describing how each day