{"product_id":"the-hitler-years-disaster-1940-1945","title":"The Hitler Years - Disaster 1940 - 1945","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781789544688\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Trade paperback (UK)\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2021\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the beginning of 1940 Germany was at the pinnacle of its power. By May 1945 Hitler was dead and Germany had suffered a disastrous defeat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHitler had failed to achieve his aim of making Germany a super power and had left her people to cope with the endless shame of the Holocaust.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Hitler Years - Disaster 1940-1945\u003c\/i\u003e, Professor Frank McDonough charts the dramatic change of fortune for the Third Reich, and challenges long-held accounts of the Holocaust and Germany's ultimate defeat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite Hitler's grand ambitions and the successful early stages of the Third Reich's advances into Europe, Frank McDonough argues that Germany was only ever a middle-ranking power and never truly stood a chance against the combined forces of the Allies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Superbly scholarly and just as readable' \u003cb\u003eDan Snow\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003ci\u003eThe Hitler Years - Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e and its companion volume, \u003ci\u003eThe Hitler Years - Triumph\u003c\/i\u003e, are not just informative on a nearly encyclopaedic level, they are well-researched, well-structured, and well-written. What's more, they are relevant and challenging. Through questioning the myths that still exist, they encourage the reader to think in a new way, not just about the past, but about the present and the future' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGet History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'McDonough has provided fascinating insights into the experiences of Germans in a fickle and frightening world' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e, on \u003ci\u003eThe Gestapo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RANDOM HOUSE","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41735122944133,"sku":"PR396366","price":40.7,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TKAIUYBUNBHX.jpg?v=1782401624","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/the-hitler-years-disaster-1940-1945","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}