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.

"Hitler?s Arctic War is a study of the campaign waged by the Germans on the northern periphery of Europe between 1940 and 1945. The emphasis was on small-unit actions, with soldiers carrying everything they needed ? food, ammunition and medical supplies ? on their backs. The terrain placed limitations on the use of tanks and heavy artillery, while lack of airfields restricted the employment of aircraft. Wehrmacht resources committed to Norway and...

Omer Bartov, a leading scholar of the Wehrmacht and the Holocaust, provides a critical analysis of various recent ways to understand the genocidal policies of the Nazi regime and the reconstruction of German and Jewish identities in the wake of World War II. Germany's War and the Holocaust both deepens our understanding of a crucial period in history and serves as an invaluable introduction to the vast body of literature in the field of Holocaust...

The endgame for Hitler's Reich Hitler's army had dared all to win all on the Western Front with its surprise winter campaign in the Ardennes, the "Battle of the Bulge." But when American and Allied forces recovered from their initial shock, the German Army, the Wehrmacht, was left fighting for its very survival-especially on the Eastern Front, where the Soviet Army was intent on matching, or even surpassing, Nazi atrocities. At the mercy of the...

This book offers a unique perspective for understanding how and why the Second World War in Europe ended as it did and why Germany, in attacking the Soviet Union, came far closer to winning the war than is often understood. Conventional wisdom explains German defeat during World War II as almost inevitable, primarily for reasons of economic or military brute force created when Germany attacked the Soviet Union in 1941 and entered into a two-front...

"On common ground is the true story of a battlefield reunion of American and German soldiers nearly 55 years after they fought in the Huertgen. This time they meet in the spirit of reconciliation, but vivid memories from the war and unanswered questions are never far beneath the surface. On common ground includes commentary from NBC news correspondent Tom Brokaw, CBS WWII correspondent Walter Cronkite, John Kenneth Galbraith, and never before seen...

The battle of the Huertgen Forest was one of the bloodiest of World War II. American and German forces suffered in excess of 60,000 casualties over a freezing six-month winter campaign. For the soldiers who survived, memories of the horror of that battle have continued to this day. This is a true story of a battlefield reunion of American and German soldiers nearly 55 years after they fought in the Huertgen. This time they meet in the spirit of reconciliation,...