The Third Reich at war

Summary: The final volume in Evans's masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the rise and fall of German military might, the mobilization of a people's community to serve a war of conquest, and Hitler's campaign of racial subjugation and genocide.

Record details

ISBN: 1594202060
ISBN: 9781594202063 (hbk.)
Physical Description: xvii, 926 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2008.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [765]-873) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	'Beasts in human form'. Lightning victory ; The new racial order ; 'A dreadful rabble' ; 'Life unworthy of life' -- Fortunes of war. 'The work of Providence' ; 'Pathological ambition' ; Operation Barbarossa ; In the tracks of Napoleon -- 'The final solution'. 'No pity, nothing' ; Launching genocide ; The Wannsee Conference ; 'Like sheep to the slaughter' -- The new order. The sinews of war ; 'No better off than pigs' ; Under the Nazi heel ; Total war -- 'The beginning of the end'. Germany in flames ; The long retreat ; 'Hell has broken out' ; A new 'time of struggle' -- German moralities. Fear and guilt ; Cultures of destruction ; Deadly science ; Resistance -- Downfall. 'A last spark of hope' ; 'We'll take a world with us' ; The final defeat ; Aftermath.