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The Third Reich at war / Richard J. Evans.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Penguin Press, 2009.Edition: 1st American edDescription: xvii, 926 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781594202063 (hbk.)
  • 1594202060
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • D757 .E83 2009
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.
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Book Book Speedway Adult Area Non-fiction 940.5343 EVA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 35550431046104
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Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [765]-873) and index.

'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.

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.

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