The Third Reich at War (Book 3 of 3: The History of the Third Reich)

“Masterful. . . . Evans demonstrates a fluent style and a sweeping  grasp of the Third Reich’s history and of the enormous historical  literature. . . . Evans’s fellow historians as well as a broader public  will read this work, not quite with pleasure, for there is little joy in  this story, but with admiration for the author’s narrative powers.” ―Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)

A New York Times bestseller!

An absorbing, revelatory, and definitive account of one of the greatest tragedies in human history

Adroitly blending narrative, description, and analysis, Richard J.  Evans portrays a society rushing headlong to self-destruction and taking  much of Europe with it. Interweaving a broad narrative of the war's  progress from a wide range of people, Evans reveals the dynamics of a  society plunged into war at every level. The great battles and events of  the conflict are here, but just as telling is Evans's re- creation of  the daily experience of ordinary Germans in wartime. At the center of  the book is the Nazi extermi­nation of the Jews. The final book in  Richard J. Evan's three-volume history of Hitler's Germany, hailed "a  masterpiece" by The New York Times, The Third Reich at War lays bare the most momentous and tragic years of the Nazi regime.