The second volume of a new narrative history of the rise and fall of the Nazi regime, by an expert on the Third Reich. ‘This book is like a time machine because Mc Donough writes so vividly’ History of War ‘Mc Donough writes clearly and readably with just enough detail on the huge canvas that he covers’ Spectator ‘A book of big themes, big ideas and world changing events [ ] a masterpiece’ History of War Magazine 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.In The Hitler Years: Disaster 1940-1945, Professor Frank Mc Donough charts the dramatic change of fortune for the Third Reich, and challenges long-held accounts of the Holocaust and Germany’s ultimate defeat.Despite Hitler’s grand ambitions and the successful early stages of the Third Reich’s advances into Europe, Frank Mc Donough 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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