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The Third Reich at war
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- ISBN: 1594202060 :
- ISBN: 9781594202063
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xvii, 926 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, plans ; 25 cm. - Edition: 1st American ed.
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2009.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2008. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [839]-873) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | '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. |
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| Subject: | World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany Germany -- Armed Forces -- History -- World War, 1939-1945 Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 |
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- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2009 February #1
*Starred Review* Evans is a professor of modern history at Cambridge University. This is the final volume in his trilogy that traces the history of the Third Reich. Like the earlier volumes, this is a massive, comprehensive, yet easily readable and engrossing chronicle. It is also a chilling and often downright sickening account of savagery on a gigantic scale. This is more than a military history, although Evans does an excellent job of explaining the strategies, tactics, and movement of huge armies and naval forces. What makes this account extraordinary are the descriptions of the effects of this war on the lives of ordinary people, both German and non-German. Of course, the efforts to exterminate European Jews are emphasized, and Evans illustrates not merely the horrors of the death camps but the cold, heartless brutality of the special SS units as they hunted down and slaughtered Jews, Poles, Russians, and anyone perceived as threats as the Wehrmacht moved east. As Hitler repeatedly proclaimed, this was a merciless war, and Evans has brilliantly recounted how it was waged. Copyright 2009 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2008 December #2
Superbly written finale to Cambridge University historian Evans's three-volume study of Nazi Germany (after The Coming of the Third Reich, 2004, and The Third Reich in Power, 2005).Hitler had promised, "Give me ten years and you'll see what I've made out of Germany," and early on in the 1940s his subjects had the growing feeling that what he was making was not good. By 1945, one woman recorded, the promise "has for months been his most often-quoted, out of bitterness." Daringly, she burned her Nazi flag, joining a resistance that had been gathering strength since 1943, when, as Evans notes, the French and various Yugoslavian factions, among many other groups, became a real military presence in German-occupied lands. Evans's view is panoramic and thematic. Early in this sprawling book, he recognizes the Nazi "final solution" as a primary motive for war, particularly in the East, and he discusses the Nazi policy of Jewish eradication in chilling detail. Interestingly, the author is always looking for chinks in the armor. He notes, for instance, that Hermann Göring objected to the resettlement of Jews as detrimental to the war economy, even as Nazi typologists were trying to invent categories to admit pro-Nazi poles into the German ethnic ranks. (Uncomfortably for them, Poles in the resistance, by Nazi accounts, tended to have "a significant proportion of Nordic blood.") Evans charts the steadily deteriorating German course of war, from the end of the U-boat campaign in the Atlantic to Stalingrad and the Allied advance into the German homeland. His notes on the denouementâincluding the incomplete denazification of German government and the arrival into the United States and many South American nations of known war criminalsâare fascinating as well. But why another book on the Third Reich? Evans closes stirringly: It is necessary to study the Nazi regime as an example of what can happen ifâwell, let Evans tell that story for himself.A resounding victory in historiography. Copyright Kirkus 2008 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2009 January #1
In this final volume in a history of Nazi Germany, Evans (modern history, Cambridge Univ.; The Third Reich in Power) focuses on the war years and skillfully moves from analyzing grand strategy to the war's local impact. Interestingly, even during the war Hitler maintained his propensity for having subordinates fight one another for supremacy rather than developing an efficient governmental system. By 1942 Hitler, confident in his military genius and disgusted with his generals, appointed himself commander in chief of the Wehrmacht, necessitating an entirely new management style for a man whose prewar administrative skills were at best lackadaisical. Hitler's micro-management of military affairs, down to the tactical level, contributed to later military disasters. Evans, however, does not accept the postwar myth that Germany's war effort was better organized by its generals. Some of the most compelling sections detail how the Nazi conquest derailed the moral compass of so many Europeans. Local populationsâin Croatia, for exampleâenthusiastically adopted Nazi methods of ethnic cleansing to create racial utopias, demonstrating that you cannot separate the war from Nazi racial ideology. Perhaps the best of an impressive series, this book is recommended for all libraries.âFrederic Krome, University of Cincinnati Clermont Coll.
[Page 104]. Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2009 January #1
Describing the Third Reich from the height of its power to its collapse, Evans concludes the masterful trilogy that began with The Coming of the Third Reich and The Third Reich in Power. As in those works, Evans demonstrates a fluent style and a sweeping grasp of the Third Reich's history and of the enormous historical literature. The account is peppered with insightful anecdotes drawn from diaries, letters and speeches. What comes across most clearly is the supreme arrogance of the Nazis and the utterly rapacious character of their rule. Evans gives the Holocaust the centrality it deserves, while also depicting effectively the suffering of Poles and many others under Nazi domination. Evans offers a nuanced picture of the lives of Germans, but ultimately, he suggests, the Nazis' racial ideology thoroughly corrupted German society. Evans narrates the Reich's end in gripping fashion as the Allies closed in on Germany. Evans's fellow historians as well as a broader public will read this work, not quite with pleasure, for there is little joy in this story, but with admiration for the author's narrative powers. Illus., maps. (Mar. 23)
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