Latest book - The Downfall of Hitler

 My latest book, "The Downfall of Hitler: His Personal, Military and Social Failures" is now available for purchase. It is a hardback book of 224 pages and published by Pen and Sword, one of the leading military and history publishers.

It deals with many aspects of Hitler's life that are perhaps less well known as well as the more familiar military mistakes.

In particular it shows how his personal defects, his economic mismanagement and structureless state all made defeat far more likely. 

There were numerous occasions when a different course of action could have resulted in success but time and again Hitler chose a mistaken policy.

The Downfall of Hitler is available from Amazon and other online retailers as well as bookshops.

The Downfall of Hitler: His Personal, Social and Military Failings

 

The Downfall of Hitler: His Personal, Social and Political Failings is the latest book by Michael FitzGerald. Ir is due to be published in June 2024 by Pen and Sword.

He has authored a number of works on the Nazi era including “Adolf Hitler: A Portrait,” “Hitler’s Secret Weapons of Mass Destruction,” “Unsolved Mysteries of World War Two” and “Hitler’s War Beneath The Waves.’

It is too readily assumed that Hitler’s failure was inevitable. The Downfall of Hitler challenges this idea and shows how there were numerous opportunities for him to adopt a different course of action that might have led to a successful outcome.

In addition to his military blunders The Downfall of Hitler also focuses on the personal defects which made him unfit for high office, his reckless gambling in foreign policy and his dysfunctional economy and state structure. In all these area better choices could have been made that would have led to different and more favourable results.

He refused to listen to advice from his senior military officers, his Cabinet or scientists with predictably disastrous consequences. His ignorance of foreign affairs proved a serious problem and led directly to his nation becoming involved in a war for which Hitler had not made adequate preparations. His economic mismanagement merely slowed down Germany in peacetime but was a major handicap once the country was at war.