HITLER'S HEADQUARTERS

A photographic history of Adolf's inner sanctums, 1920-1945 * Describes and illustrates what it was like to live and work inside Hitler's legendary command centres, bunkers and retreats. Blaine Taylor includes all of the private residences, offices, command posts and even mobile Headquarters from which the Nazi dictator planned his rise to power and the conquest of Europe. Taylor recounts the background and physical descriptions of each building while also relation these locations' importance to the larger story of Nazi Germany and World War II. Restless, Hitler rarely worked at a desk and was almost always on the move during the war, with Headquarters scattered throughout Germany and across the continent from Ukraine to Belgium. Taylor describes the best-known Headquarters, such as Wolf's Lair, the Berchtesgaden complex, and the Berlin bunker, but he also includes many lesser-known ones such as Hitler's armoured train "Amerika", Felsennest near the Belgian border, and the compound code named Tannenberg in the Black Forest. Hitler spent a fortune on these varied sites, some of which he never used. Ultimately and perhaps fittingly, he spent his final days before committing suicide holed up in his extensive bunker deep beneath Berlin..