THE MAIL'S GREATEST BOOKS: Hitler's last 24 hours: I want to be a beautiful corpse, said Eva Braun amid a frenzy of sex and drinking

In the latest extract from a mesmerising book, we tell how an orgy of drunkenness and debauchery broke out among Hitler's henchmen as the Russians closed in.

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