Tato rozsáhlá série se ponořuje do temného období německé historie, zkoumá vzestup a pád totalitního režimu s mimořádnou hloubkou. Zkoumá nejen politické a vojenské události, ale také sociální a kulturní dopady na životy obyčejných lidí. Série je uznávána pro svou faktickou přesnost, poutavé vyprávění a schopnost podat složitá témata srozumitelně. Je to zásadní zkoumání klíčového okamžiku 20. století.
Richard Evans' brilliant book unfolds perhaps the single most important story of the 20th century: how a stable and modern country in less than a single lifetime led Europe into moral, physical and cultural ruin and despair.
Evans tells the story of Germany's radical reshaping under Nazi rule. Every area of life, from literature, culture and the arts to religion, education and science, was subordinated to the relentless drive to prepare Germany for war. His book shows how the Nazis attempted to penetrate and reorder every aspect of German society, encountering many kinds and degrees of resistance along the way, but gradually winning the acceptance of the German people in the long run
The final volume in 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