The Hitler Years ~ Disaster 1940 - 1945

Beschreibung

The second volume of a new narrative history of the rise and fall of the Nazi regime, by an expert on the Third Reich. <BR>'This book is like a time machine because McDonough writes so vividly' History of War <BR><BR>'McDonough writes clearly and readably with just enough detail on the huge canvas that he covers' Spectator <BR><BR>'A book of big themes, big ideas and world changing events [.] a masterpiece' History of War Magazine<BR><BR>At the beginning of 1940 Germany was at the pinnacle of its power.

By May 1945 Hitler was dead and Germany had suffered a disastrous defeat. Hitler had failed to achieve his aim of making Germany a super power and had left her people to cope with the endless shame of the Holocaust.<BR><BR>In The Hitler Years: Disaster 1940-1945, Professor Frank McDonough charts the dramatic change of fortune for the Third Reich, and challenges long-held accounts of the Holocaust and Germany's ultimate defeat.<BR><BR>Despite Hitler's grand ambitions and the successful early stages of the Third Reich's advances into Europe, Frank McDonough argues that Germany was only ever a middle-ranking power and never truly stood a chance against the combined forces of the Allies.

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