An absorbing, revelatory, and definitive account of one of the greatest tragedies in human history
Adroitly blending narrative, description, and analysis, Richard J. Evans portrays a society rushing headlong to self-destruction and taking much of Europe with it. Interweaving a broad narrative of the war's progress from a wide range of people, Evans reveals the dynamics of a society plunged into war at every level. The great battles and events of the conflict are here, but just as telling is Evans's re- creation of the daily experience of ordinary Germans in wartime. At the center of the book is the Nazi extermination of the Jews. The final book in Richard J. Evan's three-volume history of Hitler's Germany, hailed "a masterpiece" by The New York Times, The Third Reich at War lays bare the most momentous and tragic years of the Nazi regime.
Chapter 2. THE NEW RACIAL ORDER
Chapter 3. ‘A DREADFUL RABBLE’
Chapter 4. ‘LIFE UNWORTHY OF LIFE’
Chapter 5. ‘THE WORK OF PROVIDENCE’
Chapter 6. ‘PATHOLOGICAL AMBITION’
Chapter 7. OPERATION BARBAROSSA
Chapter 8. IN THE TRACKS OF NAPOLEON
Chapter 10. LAUNCHING GENOCIDE
Chapter 11. THE WANNSEE CONFERENCE
Chapter 12. ‘LIKE SHEEP TO THE SLAUGHTER’
Chapter 14. ‘NO BETTER OFF THAN PIGS’
Chapter 15. UNDER THE NAZI HEEL
Chapter 19. ‘HELL HAS BROKEN OUT’
Chapter 20. A NEW ‘TIME OF STRUGGLE’
Chapter 22. CULTURES OF DESTRUCTION
Chapter 25. ‘A LAST SPARK OF HOPE’
Chapter 26. ‘ W E ’ L L TAKE A WORLD WITH U S’