| Edition |
1st American ed. |
| Description |
xvii, 926 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2008. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [765]-873) and index. |
| Contents |
'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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany.
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Germany -- Armed Forces -- History -- World War, 1939-1945.
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Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.
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| ISBN |
1594202060 |
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9781594202063 (hbk.) |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000043581037 |
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BWX R1773217 |
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