Historian Thomas Childers tells the dramatic story of the Third Reich focusing on how Adolf Hitler and a core group of Nazis rose to power and plunged the world into a horrific war, perpetrating the genocidal Holocaust while sacrificing the lives of millions of ordinary Germans.
Based in part on German documents seldom used by previous historians, The Third Reich charts the dramatic, improbable rise of the Nazis; the suffering of ordinary Germans under Nazi rule; and the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. Childers brings to life the Nazis’ rise to power and their use and abuse of power once they achieved it.
Throughout the book, Childers focuses on the people who formed and shaped the Nazi party and on the ordinary Germans caught up in the war -- advocates and opponents of the war -- and those who suffered because of Nazi barbarism. Childers draws heavily on diaries and letters to give this history a human touch.
This is the most comprehensive and readable one-volume history of Nazi Germany since the classic Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
