Originally published: New York : St. Martin's Press, c2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Never such innocence again -- The first strange and fatal interview -- Eva's family -- Eva, Goethe, Schubert and Bambi -- Tedious lessons and rebellious games -- Hitler's childhood -- Adolf to Führer, schoolgirl to mistress -- Eva become Fräulein Braun, Hitler becomes Führer -- Bavaria, the German idyll -- Geli and Hitler and Eva -- Dying to be with Hitler -- Diary of a desperate woman -- The photograph albums and home movies -- Mistress-in-waiting -- Eva leaves home -- Mistress -- Germany on display: the olympics -- The best years: idling at the Berghof -- The women on the Berg -- Three, three, the rivals -- 1937-9 - Eva at the Berghof: 'A golden cage' -- 1938-9 - The last summers of peace -- The war years -- 1939 - war approaches -- Waiting for Hitler to win the war -- Eva, Gretl and Fegelein -- 1941-3 - What could Eva have known? -- What could Eva have done? -- What Hitler did -- Culmination -- February 1944-January 1945 - Eva at the Berghof with Gertraud -- The Stauffenberg plot and its consequences -- In the bunker -- Hitler's last stand -- Frau Hitler for thirty-six hours.