The Hitler Years: Disaster, 1940-1945
St. Martin's Press · Print & ebook · October 12, 2021
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- Who it’s for
- Follow the Third Reich’s reversal from apparent strength to defeat in McDonough’s concluding volume.
- Themes
- Third Reich history, Germany's defeat in World War II, The Holocaust
- Genres
- World War II: European Theater, German History, Holocaust History
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The Second Volume of a new chronicle of the Third Reich under Hitler's hand, ending with his death and Germany's disastrous defeat. In The Hitler Years: Disaster 1940-1945, Frank McDonough completes his brilliant two-volume history of Germany under Hitler’s Third Reich. 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.
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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. Despite Hitler's grand ambitions and the successful early stages of the Third Reich's advances into Europe, Frank McDonough convincingly argues that Germany was only ever a middle-ranking power and never truly stood a chance against the combined forces of the Allies. In this second volume of The Hitler Years, Professor Frank McDonough charts the dramatic change of fortune for the Third Reich and Germany's ultimate defeat.
Power, Reconsidered
Follow the Third Reich’s reversal from apparent strength to defeat in McDonough’s concluding volume.
Come here for
- A measured look at Germany’s wartime power and ambitions
- An argument against the idea that Germany could prevail against the Allies
Expect
- A chronicle spanning 1940 to 1945
- A focus on the gap between Hitler’s aims and Germany’s defeat
Where it sits
| World War II: European Theater | 81% |
|---|---|
| Holocaust History | 59% |
| German History | 55% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Lives in History
- German History
- World War II History
- Authors
- Frank McDonough
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Published
- October 12, 2021
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Third Reich history · Germany's defeat in World War II · The Holocaust
- Reading lane
- Lives in History