i picked up this book after a friend told me it does a great work of describing the last days of the 3rd reich, and that there are parallels to be drawn to the way nasrallah is behaving in his bunker in lebanon.

it is indeed one the best books i read about WWII. it short and very focused on the last days (as experienced by hitler and his top aides), but it is very approachable and gives a great picture of the chaos at the end of the war, as well as trying to explain the logic (or lack there of) behind the actions of the reich in its last days.

there are chilling descriptions of the last day, and how goebbels's wife murdered their six children by giving them cyanide pills while they slept (the oldest girl who was 12 years old tried to resist), and then went to sit for dinner and reminiscence the good-old days.

i highly recommend reading this book for anyone who is interested in the war.

with regard to the parallels with nasrallah. i think i saw different parallels than my friend (he compared how both were able to keep their control and communications during a constant bombardment by a superior enemy). the parallels i saw were around the fanaticism of the two. both hitler and nasrallah saw the world in black and white, they share racism and disgust of western values. both don't care about their people or their country, and for all their care it could burn to ashes.