num_pages: 992
description: A Major Study of One of the Twentieth Century's Darkest PeriodsUntil now there has been no up-to-date, one-volume, international history of Nazi Germany, despite its being among the most studied phenomena of our time. The Third Reich restores a broad perspective and intellectual unity to issues that have become academic subspecialties and offers a brilliant new interpretation of Hitler's evil rule.Filled with human and moral considerations that are missing from theoretical accounts, Michael Burleigh's book gives full weight to the experience of ordinary people who were swept up in, or repelled by, Hitler's movement and emphasizes international themes-for Nazi Germany appealed to many European nations, and its wartime conduct included efforts to dominate the Continental economy and involved gigantic population transfers and exterminations, recruitment of foreign labor, and multinational armies.
language: English
title: The Third Reich: A New History
titlecomplete: The Third Reich: A New History
characters: Albert Speer, Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler, Josef Goebbels, Benito Mussolini, Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, Franz von Papen, Heinrich Brüning, Winston Churchill, Heinrich Himmler, Alfred Rosenberg, Odilo Globočnik, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Adolf Eichmann, Hans Frank, Joseph Stalin, Paul von Hindenburg, Reinhard Heydrich
genres: Military History, History, World War II, Politics, European History, German Literature, Germany, War, Nonfiction, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 1432
places: Third Reich
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
publisher: Hill and Wang