Hitler's personal secretary reveals the experience of day-to-day life beside one of history's true monsters.In 1942 Germany, Traudl Junge was a young woman with dreams of becoming a ballerina when she was offered the chance of a lifetime. At the age of twenty-two she became private secretary to Adolf Hitler and served him for two and a half years, right up to the bitter end. Junge observed the intimate workings of Hitler�s administration, she typed correspondence and speeches, including Hitler�s public and private last will and testament; she ate her meals and spent evenings with him; and she was close enough to hear the bomb that was intended to assassinate Hitler in the Wolf�s Lair, close enough to smell the bitter almond odor of Eva Braun�s cyanide pill. In her intimate, detailed memoir, Junge invites readers to experience day-to-day life with the most horrible dictator of the twentieth century. 14 black-and-white photographs