Hitler's Last Days

Hitler’s Last Days is yet another gem written by the mastermind of history, Bill O’Reilly. How O’Reilly wrote this book with such great detail and information will may never be discovered. The details in the book are nothing short of extraordinary. O’Reilly makes the reader act like a US Official reading over battle operations and reviews. He adds personal letters from various officers around the war. He makes it feel like the reader is sitting next to Adolf Hitler in his war room, going over all Nazi battle plans. Although the book entitles the death of Adolf Hitler, it also adds detailed accounts of The Battle of the Bulge and other major points in the final portion of World War II. The book begins with a short anecdote of Adolf Hitler’s

The ongoing theme for this book was death, because it happened everyday in Nazi Germany. O’Reilly used many different sourced to help write this book. He went to many of the places that were mentioned in this book such as Berlin, Bastogne, and Auschwitz-Birkenau. He also used the Presidential Libraries of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, as well as the National Archives. O’Reilly also used many different books as secondary sources such as The Guns at Last Night, A Soldier’s Story, World War II in Numbers, and Inside Hitler’s Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich. All of these sources lended credibility towards this book because many were primary sources and others written by credible authors. This book is not at all biased because it is purely factual evidence from primary sources and other books. Though it was a book about Hitler’s last days, it went past the life of Adolf Hitler. It went into detail the events leading up to the death of Hitler. This book is loaded with strengths such as credibility, detail, and great writing. Hitler’s Last Days has so many different primary sources that contributes to the narration of the book. With the plentiful primary sources comes the great detail. This book has a lot of detail that is not common within any other World War II books. Bill O’Reilly wrote this book, so it almost is a given that

People should read this book because it gives people a different understanding of World War II. Although World War II is covered in most history classes, it is not as covered as the US Civil War or World War I. Hitler’s Last Days goes into great detail about the key events in World War II that led to the fall of the Third Reich. As this book has many strengths, it also has its weaknesses for the readers. If a reader is not really interested in history or World War II, this could seem like a non-stop and boring book to read. It does have a lot of information that could be tedious to read if not interested. Other than that, Hitler’s Last Days is a fantastic book and should be read by most high school students interested in World War