KILLING HITLER'S REICH: The Battle for Austria 1945

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Details the battle for Austria at the tail end of WWII as German Army Group South made a last stand. General Dwight Eisenhower changed the entire focus of American ground operations to cut off Germans from retreating into the so-called National Redoubt. Moreover, it was Austria that proved to be the graveyard of the Waffen SS. No less than 15 of Himmler's divisions ended the war there. Note that on VE Day, Army Group South listed 450,000 men still under arms in four armies.

And as the German war effort disintegrated into chaos, high ranking Nazis fled the dying Reich through Austria and into Italy. Some made it, many didn't and the book follows the chase and capture of some of the most notorious, including Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Himmler's second in command.