Table of Contents

	Foreword	p. vii
	The Rise of Adolf Hitler
	Birth of the Third Reich	p. 17
	Birth of the Nazi Party	p. 52
	Versailles, Weimar and the Beer Hall Putsch	p. 83
	The Mind of Hitler and the Roots of the Third Reich	p. 120
	Triumph and Consolidation
	The Road to Power: 1925-31	p. 167
	The Last Days of the Republic: 1931-33	p. 211
	The Nazification of Germany: 1933-34	p. 263
	Life in the Third Reich: 1933-37	p. 320
	The Road to War
	The First Steps: 1934-37	p. 385
	Strange, Fateful Interlude: The Fall of Blomberg, Fritsch, Neurath and Schacht	p. 423
	Anschluss: The Rape of Austria	p. 440
	The Road to Munich	p. 485
	Czechoslovakia Ceases to Exist	p. 578
	The Turn of Poland	p. 612
	The Nazi-Soviet Pact	p. 685
	The Last Days of Peace	p. 726
	The Launching of World War II	p. 791
	War: Early Victories and the Turning Point
	The Fall of Poland	p. 827
	Sitzkrieg in the West	p. 838
	The Conquest of Denmark and Norway	p. 889
	Victory in the West	p. 939
	Operation Sea Lion: The Thwarted Invasion of Britain	p. 996
	Barbarossa: The Turn of Russia	p. 1040
	A Turn of the Tide	p. 1117
	The Turn of the United States	p. 1140
	The Great Turning Point: 1942--Stalingrad and El Alamein	p. 1180
	Beginning of the end
	The New Order	p. 1223
	The Fall of Mussolini	p. 1293
	The Allied Invasion of Western Europe and the Attempt to Kill Hitler	p. 1316
	The Fall of the Third Reich
	The Conquest of Germany	p. 1409
	Goetterdaemmerung: The Last Days of the Third Reich	p. 1437
	A Brief Epilogue	p. 1480
	Notes	p. 1487
	Acknowledgements	p. 1527
	Bibliography	p. 1533
	Index	p. 1549

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