Descent into Nightmare outlines the series of events and desperate efforts of Hitler's regime to hold on to the West during the final stages of the war. Cataloguing the push of the Allies across Europe and the crushing defeats suffered by the German forces, which uncovered the atrocities that outraged the world and lead to their eventual surrender followed by the historical and disturbing Nuremburg Trials. With historical records, photographs, maps and first-hand reports, this book is a poignant record of a nation plunged into a living nightmare of inconceivable atrocities by a ruthless and fanatical Fuhrer.