The Third Reich at war
Subtitle: 1939-1945
By: Richard J. Evans
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 926
ISBN-13: 9780143116714
Subjects: Armed Forces; World War, 1939-1945; History
Description: 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.
Notes: First published: London : Allen Lane, 2008; New York : Penguin, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 'Beasts in human form'. Lightning victory ; The new racial order ; 'A dreadful rabble' ; 'Life unworthy of life'; title: Fortunes of war. 'The work of Providence' ; 'Pathological ambition' ; Operation Barbarossa ; In the tracks of Napoleon; title: 'The final solution'. 'No pity, nothing' ; Launching genocide ; The Wannsee Conference ; 'Like sheep to the slaughter'; title: The new order. The sinews of war ; 'No better off than pigs' ; Under the Nazi heel ; Total war; title: 'The beginning of the end'. Germany in flames ; The long retreat ; 'Hell has broken out' ; A new 'time of struggle'; title: German moralities. Fear and guilt ; Cultures of destruction ; Deadly science ; Resistance; title: Downfall. 'A last spark of hope' ; 'We'll take a world with us' ; The final defeat ; Aftermath.