Explores the brutal, heroic and extraordinary final days of the First World War. In this study, the author examines the last days of the war and asks the question: how did it end? Beginning at the heralded turning-point on the Marne in July 1918, it traces the story of the next four months, which included some of the bloodiest battles of the war.

In almost every major war there comes a point where defeat looms for one side and its rulers cut a deal with the victors, if only in an attempt to save their own skins. This title offers an account of the final months of the Nazi war machine, from the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in July 1944 to the German surrender in May 1945.