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Rating:  Summary: A History Of Lies Review: I have read several of Hugh Thomas' books and my doubts as to the reliability of Mr Thomas grew with every tome he has released.My first impressions of the book "The Murder Of Rudolf Hess" was favourable, if reserved. The idea of Hess being secretly despatched and a replacement seemed to me not unfeasable, especially when a former guard of his stated that he didn't believe he was the real Hess but to find someone to stand-in for Hess for forty-six years seems a tall order. Since then I have read this book with absolute disgust. Heinz Linge, Hitlers faithfull valet strangling him? Rubbish! Eva Braun, who voluntarily left Munich to be by Hitlers side rushing off when the Russians are too close? Sheer fantasy! Last year all the peices of the Thomas puzzle came together when I visited Germany on a guided tour, guided by Mr Tony Le Tissier, last British governer of Spandau prison. He explained the removal, by Thomas, of an X-ray of Hess at such an angle as to not show the bullet trail through the lung, despite the rest clearly showing it. Mr Thomas made a lot of money from the resulting book and has realised that writing conspiritorial, controversial (if historically untrue) material is very lucrative business. Don't believe a word of any of Thomas' books!
Rating:  Summary: A History Of Lies Review: I have read several of Hugh Thomas' books and my doubts as to the reliability of Mr Thomas grew with every tome he has released. My first impressions of the book "The Murder Of Rudolf Hess" was favourable, if reserved. The idea of Hess being secretly despatched and a replacement seemed to me not unfeasable, especially when a former guard of his stated that he didn't believe he was the real Hess but to find someone to stand-in for Hess for forty-six years seems a tall order. Since then I have read this book with absolute disgust. Heinz Linge, Hitlers faithfull valet strangling him? Rubbish! Eva Braun, who voluntarily left Munich to be by Hitlers side rushing off when the Russians are too close? Sheer fantasy! Last year all the peices of the Thomas puzzle came together when I visited Germany on a guided tour, guided by Mr Tony Le Tissier, last British governer of Spandau prison. He explained the removal, by Thomas, of an X-ray of Hess at such an angle as to not show the bullet trail through the lung, despite the rest clearly showing it. Mr Thomas made a lot of money from the resulting book and has realised that writing conspiritorial, controversial (if historically untrue) material is very lucrative business. Don't believe a word of any of Thomas' books!
Rating:  Summary: An amazing study and theory of Hitler's last days Review: Like a great detective, Thomas explores and thoroughly checks every scrap of evidence before he comes to conclusions. His forensic background only heightens his credibility and serves to convince you even more as you read this intrigueing story. Thomas goes to great lengths to reconstruct what actually happened in those last few weeks in the bunker and afterwards, and is quite convincing in doing so. Was Hitler actually murdered and did things occur the way Thomas surmizes? The world may never know as all living evidence is now gone. This is a most fascinating detective story that will make you think and wonder.
Rating:  Summary: Sheer idiocy! Review: The only people who would enjoy this book are those who are convinced that aliens have abucted them and hijacked them to other universes. This book is pure science fiction from start to finish and poorly written fiction. Let's get down to brass tacks: The evidence that Hitler and Eva Braun died in the Berlin bunker at 3:30 in the afternoon on April 30, 1945 is irrefutible. Both commited suicide. There are multiple eyewitnesses who saw the corpses and who survived to tell the story, either in Russian captivity, on American TV or to dozens of different historians over the years. All saw Eva Braun dead and saw her incinerated in the garden of the Chancellery. Only the most perverted and uneducated mind could possibly believe for a single milesecond that Eva Braun escaped from the Bunker. Aside from the fact that almost no one escaped alive and got into the American sector at this impossibly late date, what would Eva's motive have been? Hmmm?? She risked her life by traveling to Berlin to die at Hitler's side. He rewarded her loyalty by marrying her the day before their joint suicide. According to the author, Eva then (inexplicably) deserts Hitler and successfully escapes from the Bunker? Never mind that this is a physical and emotional impossibility for her. Forget that there are no eyewitnesses, either in the Bunker or anyone who saw her alive after 4-30-45. Let's sweep under the carpet that Eva, a devoted family person, never bothered to visit or see her parents again, or her two sisters, Gretl or Ilse. This book is insulting in its premise, torpid in style and ridiculous in all areas. Avoid it like the plague, it's pure fantasy.
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