Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler were together for fourteen years, ending only with their double suicide and her words \`I want to be a beautiful corpse, I will take poison\`.Who was Eva Braun? How did a teenage photographer\`s assistant become the closest confidante of a dictator? Why did a leader who espoused the ideal German family live a bohemian life with a woman twenty-three years his junior? Was Braun just the carefree, naive blonde of myth?This gripping book is the first to examine fully her strange role in the Nazi hierarchy, revealing her true power and, in doing so, shedding light on the heart of a terrible regime. \`An utterly compelling  portrayal of the weird hidden life of the dictator . . . who, like some black star, destroyed all those he touched. Eva was only one of millions of his victims - but a willing one.\` Nigel Jones, Sunday Telegraph \`Fascinating . . . overturns the established view of her as an apolitical bystander.\` Nicholas Shakespeare, Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year\`Easily the best biography of Eva Braun so far written.\` Daily Beast\`The first biography to correct the image of the dumb blonde at the side of the mass murderer.\` Der Spiegel