![]() ![]() 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 two books.Įvans makes clear in the introduction that this is not a book about the war itself, nor about the Holocaust. The final book in Evans' Third Reich trilogy was bound to be the most crisply written, if only because the subject matter demanded it. Above, the statistics surrounding the failure to create a war economy spelled frank defeat as early as 1942, while the popularity of Hitler and the egime could no longer be cranked up sporadically by victory. In reality, the encoroaching deprivations were shouldered as an individual or close-knit primus vindendum. Did Germany believe it could win ? Below, only if every citizen was as monolithically fervent as Goebbels' propopganda wished him to be. Similar whispers of a different sort trail out of the Holocaust - another well-trodden ground, yet one which keeps yielding fresh ashes.Ĭould Germany win the war ? the first wave of rationing between the Poland Campaign and Christmas says no. ![]() The guns of the Eastern Front rumble at a measured distance, felt mostly in their effect on the Home Front. Undoubtedly the war years are the greatest challenging to approach from a fresh angle, but with his focus on the inner workings of Nazi Germany, Evans rejuvenates the bombing war by placing us under the cross-hairs in a shelter. ![]()
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