Craigie Emma - Hitlers Last Day: Minute by Minute: The hidden story of an SS family in wartime Germany

Praise for D-Day: Minute by Minute:

Studded with extraordinary detail, its the most joltingly vivid account ever written of the day the Allies gambled everything Heartbreaking and thrilling by turns. Daily Mail

This blow-by-blow account of Allied troops storming of the Normandy beaches highlights the poignant moments, personal stories and individual scenes that make key moments in history The chaos, the horror and the bravery of the battlefield are all here.
Daily Express

An accessible history that conveys the havoc and vast international spread of D-Day. Kirkus Review, US

This book creates a remarkably vivid picture of one of the most important days in modern history. The Good Book Guide

Praise for The Assassination of JFK: Minute by Minute:

Reads like a pacey, page-turning, cold war political thriller.
Dermot OLeary

You forget you are reading a factual description of a historical event, as it feels like a gripping crime thriller. Edinburgh Evening News

A blow by blow account of a moment that changed history The pictures come thick and fast as the tragedy unfolds and some of the images painted are painfully powerful. Radio Times

A gripping account of those blood-soaked few days in November 1963. Daily Express

For David, Maud, Wilf, Myfanwy and Samuel EC

For Hannah and Charlie
In memory of Derek Mayo and Michael Scott-Joynt JM

I would like to thank John Schwartz, Dietlinde Nawrath and Annette Yoosefinejad for talking about their memories and family stories; Patrick Mueller and Myfanwy Craigie for help with translation; the late Elizabeth Bruegger for the information about Harald Quandt in Latimer House; Joanna Hylton, Richard Oldfield, Gillian Rees-Mogg and Charlotte Rees-Mogg for showing, lending and giving me books and Kate OBrien for recommending sources. Id also like to thank my family for allowing me to shirk domestic duties in the run-up to Christmas and Jonathan for being a great collaborator in the best sense.

EC

Many thanks to Sibylle Harrison for her invaluable German translations; the Ruffle family, and in particular Alan Ruffle, for permission to reprint Bert Ruffles 1945 diary; Robin Mortimer for the book loans; Phil Critchlow for his on-going minute by minute support. Particular thanks to my family who have put up with a husband and father whose head has too often been in April 1945 rather than the present day. I couldnt have asked for a better writing partner in Emma whose idea this book was.

JM

Thanks to Aurea Carpenter and Rebecca Nicolson for their support and enthusiasm, and to Paul Bougourd for his wise and focused editing.