The New Yorker declared the first volume of Ian Kershaw's two-volume masterpiece "as  close to definitive as anything we are likely to see," and that promise  is fulfilled in this stunning second volume. As Nemesis opens,  Adolf Hitler has achieved absolute power within Germany and triumphed in  his first challenge to the European powers. Idolized by large segments  of the population and firmly supported by the Nazi regime, Hitler is  poised to subjugate Europe. Nine years later, his vaunted war machine  destroyed, Allied forces sweeping across Germany, Hitler will end his  life with a pistol shot to his head. "[M]ore probing, more judicious,  more authoritative in its rich detail...more commanding in its mastery  of the horrific narrative."—Milton J. Rosenberg, Chicago TribuneThe climax and conclusion of one of the best-selling biographies of our time.