<p><b>DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR and BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK CLUB title<br></b><br><b>''I want to be a beautiful corpse, I will take poison'' Eva Braun, 1945<br><br></b>Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler were together for fourteen years, a relationship that ended only with their marriage and double suicide in Berlin. <br><br>So who was Eva Braun? Heike G¿rtemaker''s highly praised book is the first to take Braun''s role in the Nazi hierarchy seriously. It uses her to throw fascinating light on a regime that prided itself on its harsh, coherent and unsentimental ideology, but which was in practice a chaos of competing individuals fighting for space around the overwhelmingly dominant figure of Hitler.<br><br>''Finally gives Braun her place in the dark history of the Third Reich'' <i>Wall Street Journal</i></p>