This comprehensive series delves into a dark period of German history, examining the rise and fall of a totalitarian regime with exceptional depth. It explores not only the political and military events but also the social and cultural impacts on the lives of ordinary people. The series is lauded for its factual accuracy, gripping narrative, and ability to present complex subjects accessibly. It stands as an essential exploration of a pivotal moment in the 20th century.
Richard Evans' brilliant book unfolds perhaps the single most important story of the 20th century: how a stable and modern country in less than a single lifetime led Europe into moral, physical and cultural ruin and despair.
Evans tells the story of Germany's radical reshaping under Nazi rule. Every area of life, from literature, culture and the arts to religion, education and science, was subordinated to the relentless drive to prepare Germany for war. His book shows how the Nazis attempted to penetrate and reorder every aspect of German society, encountering many kinds and degrees of resistance along the way, but gradually winning the acceptance of the German people in the long run
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