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The Hitler years. Volume 2, Disaster, 1940-1945 / Frank McDonough.

McDonough, Frank, 1957- (author.).

Summary:

"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. 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." -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781250275127
ISBN: 1250275121
Physical Description: 656 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021.
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Originally published in Great Britain by Head of Zeus Ltd, an Apollo book."--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction -- Blitzkrieg triumphant -- War of annihilation -- War against the Jews -- The Wehrmacht retreats -- Losing battles -- Funeral in Berlin -- Hitler's long shadow -- acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.