Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 1149-1195) and index.
Table of Contents
The rise of Adolf Hitler -- Birth of the Nazi Party -- Versailles, Weimar and the Beer Hall Putsch -- Triumph and consolidation -- The Nazification of Germany: 1933-34 -- The road to war -- Anschluss: the rape of Austria -- Czechoslovakia -- Poland -- The Nazi-Soviet Pact -- War: early victories and the turning point -- The fall of Poland -- The conquest of Denmark and Norway -- Operation Sea Lion -- Barbarossa -- Stalingrad and El Alamein -- Beginning of the end -- The fall of Mussolini -- The attempt to kill Hitler -- The fall of the Third Reich -- Goetterdaemmerung.