Description
Product ID: | 9780857381750 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Third Reich |
Subtitle: | A Chronicle |
Authors: | Author: Richard Overy |
Page Count: | 496 |
Subjects: | European history, European history, History, Second World War, Far-right political ideologies and movements, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, Fascism & Nazism, Germany, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating A superbly illustrated new history of the Third Reich from a world-class historian. The Third Reich was the name Hitler and the Nazi Party gave to the dictatorship that began in 1933 and ended twelve years later with the utter destruction of Germany and Hitler''s suicide. Defined by the messianic, iconic figure of the Führer, the Third Reich was one of the pivotal periods of the modern age. From small beginnings in the 1920s, Hitler''s movement came to dominate German society in the 1930s, bringing with it the militarization of German society, the apparatus of state terror and a policy of violent discrimination against political opponents, the so-called ''asocials'': gypsies, homosexuals, and, above all, the Jews. The history of the Reich is bound up with territorial aggression, total war and genocide. The end result was the complete defeat of Germany and the annihilation of millions of Europeans, a historical drama without precedent that still lies as a shadow over modern-day Germany. |
Imprint Name: | Quercus Publishing |
Publisher Name: | Quercus Publishing |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2011-08-04 |