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The final amount in Richard J. Evans's masterly trilogy on the annals of Nazi Germany traces the rise and fall of German armed service might, the mobilization of an "people's community" to provide a battle of conquest, and Hitler's campaign of racial subjugation and genocide. Already hailed as "a masterpiece" (William Grimes in The NY Times) and "the most detailed history... of the 3rd Reich" (Ian Kershaw), this epic trilogy gets to its terrifying climax in this amount. Evans interweaves a broad narrative of the war's progress with viscerally affecting personal testimony from a variety of people - from generals to front-line troops, from Hitler Youth activists to middle-class housewives. The Third Reich at Conflict lays bare the dynamics of an nation more deeply immersed in battle than any modern culture before or since. Fresh insights into the conflict's great happenings are here, from the invasion of Poland to the Struggle of Stalingrad to Hitler's suicide in the bunker. But just as important is the re-creation of the daily connection with regular Germans in wartime, staggering under pressure from Allied bombing and their own government's mounting requirements upon them. At the center of the publication is the Nazi extermination of Europe's Jews, set in the context of Hitler's genocidal strategies for the racial restructuring of Europe. Blending narrative, explanation, and analysis, THE 3RD Reich at Conflict creates an engrossing picture - simultaneously sweeping and correct - of an society rushing headlong to self-destruction and taking much of Europe with it. It is the culmination of an historical masterwork that will remain the most authoritative focus on Nazi Germany for years to come.
