The Chicago Tribune

Books like Last Stop Vienna are precious reminders, guiding us through the stumbling wilderness of accidents that is the truth of history, that the future is at play at all times, and that it remains, to the last, in our own hands.

Last Stop Vienna

A Novel
Last Stop Vienna

Germany in the 1920s, in the early days of Hitler and the Nazi party, was a country plunging into darkness and violence. Andrew Nagorski has written the story of a doomed generation, of evil, hopelessness, sexual perversion and murder that set the stage for the ultimate destruction of a society. But in a stunning denouement, a young Nazi brownshirt, acting out of passion and revenge, changes the course of history.