Darkness Falling'Gripping and all too timely' James Hawes 'A brilliant mix of detailed research and vivid storytelling' Julia Boyd 'History at its very best and a fabulous translation, too' Graham Hurley In March 1930, after the collapse of the coalition that had ruled Germany since 1928, President Hindenburg asked Heinrich Brning, the bespectacled and scholarly leader of the Catholic Centre Party, to form a government. Some three years later, in January 1933,