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The Hitler years / Frank McDonough.

Author/creator McDonough, Frank, 1957- author.
Format Book and Print
EditionFirst U.S. edition.
Publication Info New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021-
Descriptionvolumes : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Volume 1: Triumph, 1933-1939. 1933: democracy and communism destroyed -- 1934: blood purge -- 1935: breaking free of Versailles -- 1936: Olympian heights -- 1937: deceptive calm -- 1938: high anxiety -- 1939: Hiitler's[sic] racial war.
Contents Volume 2. Disaster, 1940-1945. 1940: blitzkrieg triumphant -- 1941:war of annihilation -- 1942: war against the Jews -- 1943: the Wehrmacht retreates -- 1944: losing battles -- 1945: funeral in Berlin -- Conclusion: Hitler's long shadow.
Abstract "From historian Frank McDonough, the first volume of a new chronicle of the Third Reich under Hitler's hand. On January 30th, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the German Chancellor of a coalition government by President Hindenburg. Within a few months he had installed a dictatorship, jailing and killing his leftwing opponents, terrorizing the rest of the population and driving Jews out of public life. He embarked on a crash program of militaristic Keynesianism, reviving the economy and achieving full employment through massive public works, vast armaments spending and the cancellations of foreign debts. After the grim years of the Great Depression, Germany seemed to have been reborn as a brutal and determined European power. Over the course of the years from 1933 to 1939, Hitler won over most of the population to his vision of a renewed Reich. In these years of domestic triumph, cunning maneuvers, pitting neighboring powers against each other and biding his time, we see Hitler preparing for the moment that would realize his ambition. But what drove Hitler's success was also to be the fatal flaw of his regime: a relentless belief in war as the motor of greatness, a dream of vast conquests in Eastern Europe and an astonishingly fanatical racism. In The Hitler Years: Triumph, Frank McDonough charts the rise and fall of the Third Reich under Hitler's through Germany's comprehensive military defeat of Poland in 1939"-- Provided by publisher.
General note"Originally published in Great Britain by Head of Zeus Ltd, an Apollo book."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2021001876
ISBN9781250275103 (v. 1 ; hardcover)
ISBN1250275105 (v. 1 ; hardcover)
ISBN(v. 1 ; ebook)
ISBN9781250275127 (v. 2 ; hardcover)
ISBN1250275121 (v. 2 ; hardcover)
ISBN(v. 2 ; ebook)
Standard identifier# 40030626092

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