On breaking open the Berlin Bunker on May 2, 1945, Soviet troops captu red two of Adolf Hitler's closest associates: his personal valet, Hein z Linge, and his SS adjutant, Otto Guensche -- who had just disposed of the bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun. On Stalin's orders they were ques tioned for two years, to produce this astonishing fly-on-the wall acco unt of all they saw in Hitler's headquarters -- where they had worked s ince 1933. It has been held in top-level Russian archives since 1949. The book contains remarkable insight into Hitler's daily life before a nd during the Second World War. Chilling, revealing and compellingly r eadable, it is one of the most authentic sources of information in exi stence on the history of the Third Reich, unique in the circumstances of its compilation and its closeness in time to the events described.