The Third Reich at War, Richard J. Evans
The Third Reich at War, Richard J. Evans
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The Third Reich at War

Author: Richard J. Evans

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Unabridged: 35 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 08/06/2010


Synopsis

The final volume in Richard J. Evans’s masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the rise and fall of German military might, the mobilization of a “people’s community” to serve a war of conquest, and Hitler’s campaign of racial subjugation and genocide

Already hailed as “a masterpiece” (William Grimes in The New York Times) and “the most comprehensive history… of the Third Reich” (Ian Kershaw), this epic trilogy reaches its terrifying climax in this volume.

Evans interweaves a broad narrative of the war’s progress with viscerally affecting personal testimony from a wide range of people—from generals to front-line soldiers, from Hitler Youth activists to middle-class housewives. The Third Reich at War lays bare the dynamics of a nation more deeply immersed in war than any society before or since. Fresh insights into the conflict’s great events are here, from the invasion of Poland to the Battle of Stalingrad to Hitler’s suicide in the bunker. But just as important is the re-creation of the daily experience of ordinary Germans in wartime, staggering under pressure from Allied bombing and their own government’s mounting demands upon them. At the center of the book is the Nazi extermination of Europe’s Jews, set in the context of Hitler’s genocidal plans for the racial restructuring of Europe.

Blending narrative, description and analysis, The Third Reich at War creates an engrossing picture—at once sweeping and precise—of a society rushing headlong to self-destruction and taking much of Europe with it. It is the culmination of a historical masterwork that will remain the most authoritative work on Nazi Germany for years to come.

About Richard J. Evans

Richard J. Evans is Regius Professor Emeritus of History at Cambridge University. Knighted in 2012 for his services to scholarship, he is the author of many prizewinning and bestselling books, including his acclaimed study of the Third Reich, whose three volumes have been translated into sixteen languages.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Wick on March 29, 2025

The politics of consumption. This is the final installment in Evans’ phenomenal series about the Third Reich called The History of the Third Reich. I highly recommend you read all three. It is a phenomenal overview of one of the worst events that has ever happened to humanity: Nazi Germany. No, it’s......more

Goodreads review by Lewis on August 10, 2018

This is too much of an overview to suit my need for detail. The selection of which items to include is sometimes surprising.......more

Goodreads review by Loring on August 05, 2012

The final book in Evans' Third Reich trilogy was bound to be the most crisply written, if only because the subject matter demanded it. With a long and complex war to cover in less than 800 pages, the author simply didn't have the time to expand into realms that occasionally bogged down the first tw......more

Goodreads review by Christopher on December 26, 2021

Richard J. Evans concludes his trilogy on Nazi Germany with The Third Reich at War. It might seem a fool’s errand for even a gifted historian to publish another book about World War II, and Evans admits that he’s covering ground much more familiar than the bulk of his earlier works. Hitler’s stupend......more

Goodreads review by Blamp on September 29, 2020

Please be aware that the following includes some disturbing and graphic (violent) text. This year (complaints/observations of my own, or of people I have spoken to / seen in the news) And back then (quotations from the book) I ordered my lunch on UberEats and it took 45 minutes! God I was STARVING by t......more