The Third Reich at War by Richard J. Evans Publisher: Jiuzhou Publishing House

Introduction
Editor's Recommendations
★ Through the macro-war description and the wartime experience of ordinary people, the book tells the detailed story of Nazi military conquest and destruction. From the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, until its surrender in May 1945, Germany swept across Europe with a blitzkrieg offensive, occupying France, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands and other countries, and attacking Britain, the Soviet Union and North Africa. From the Battle of Poland, the Winter War, the Battle of the Bulge, Operation Barbarossa, to the Battle of Britain, the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Normandy, Evans tells the key battles that determined the direction of World War II with fluent narrative and clear analysis, leading readers back to the historical scene.
★In-depth exploration of the Nazi's genocide and eugenics policies, a complete analysis of the Nazi's crimes from the perspectives of participants, motives, means, locations, numbers, reactions from all walks of life, etc. From the Nazi's attempt to rebuild the European racial order, the prejudice against "inferior races" such as Jews, Slavs, and Gypsies, the ideology of Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, etc., the impact of racial transfer and cleansing on the war economy and resource allocation, the "purification" mentality behind the killing of mentally ill people and disabled children, the inhumanity in concentration camps such as Auschwitz and Birkenau, the plans for mass shootings and the establishment of gas chambers, the number of victims of Nazi atrocities, and the support or disgust of the German people for this, a comprehensive understanding of this greatest catastrophe of mankind in the 20th century.
★ Breaking the past single perspective focused on battles or concentration camps, this book fully exposes the wartime system and its operation of the Third Reich, and provides insight into the root causes of Nazi self-destruction. This book uses the advancement of the war as a timeline to explore how Germany fully mobilized domestic affairs, diplomacy, economy, colonization, population management, weapons research and development, corporate cooperation, media propaganda, religious beliefs, literature, film, music, art, scientific research and other fields, how it controlled and mapped out all aspects of the empire, and devoted the whole country's efforts to "total war."
★Not only focusing on a few high-ranking Nazi officials such as Hitler and Goebbels, but also extending to Hitler's allies, government bureaucrats, military generals, and ordinary people, presenting a more complete and true Third Reich. Through a large number of official documents, meeting records, telegrams, letters, newspapers, diaries, memoirs and other historical materials, Evans not only delicately restores the psychology and decision-making of Nazi leaders such as Hitler, Goebbels, and Himmler, but also depicts the Minister of Equipment Speer, Governor of the Polish Government Frank, Army Commander-in-Chief Brauchitsch, Commander of Army Group B Bock, Director of the Party Office Bormann, Director of the Fuhrer's Office Bauhler, Chief of the Reich's Press Dietrich, and Commander of Auschwitz Concentration Camp Hoss, etc., which have influenced the survival of the empire, showing the internal mechanism of Nazi Germany in a three-dimensional and comprehensive way.
★Recommended by media including Time, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.
Recommended by experts
Evans's fluent writing shows his thorough understanding of the history of the Third Reich and its vast documentary materials... Evans's description of the final collapse of the Third Reich is as exciting and brilliant as the Allied forces' step-by-step encirclement of Germany. ... Whether it is historians or readers, after reading this book, they will be impressed by the author's narrative ability.
——Publishers Weekly

Why did the German people, who were so eager for order and national pride, follow the most reckless criminal in history to their doom without hesitation? Richard Evans's masterpiece of history, The Third Reich at War, answers almost every possible aspect of this question. ... This history is so familiar, but Evans, with wisdom, good structure and admirable clarity, has made the best and most up-to-date summary of this topic that has been widely studied in the past few decades.
——Times Magazine

We all know how this story ends, but Richard Evans' trilogy cleverly shows us the full picture.
——The Guardian

Few historians have dared to attempt such a grand narrative, and it is hard to imagine anyone else being able to improve on this work, let alone surpass it.
—The Washington Post

Evans combines traditional research directions such as Nazi racial policy, internal party struggles and foreign policy with more recent academic focuses such as cultural life, educational policy and economic plunder; the materials used are diverse, including classic official information such as Gestapo documents and SPD secret reports, as well as first-hand records such as letters and diaries of Germans at the time. All aspects of Nazi Germany are presented to readers without omission, which is all-encompassing.
——"German History"

Evans avoids the shortcomings of many historical works of the Third Reich: equating the history of the Third Reich with Hitler's personal biography, and ordinary Germans are either victims of Himmler's reign of terror or mindless containers of Goebbels' propaganda frenzy. In his writing, the history of the Third Reich has no protagonists, but a group of villains who are treated equally. He presents readers with a fuller and more real Third Reich.
—The New York Times

The Third Reich Trilogy is the most comprehensive history of Nazi Germany available in any language today.
—Ian Kershaw, author of A Trip to Hell: 1914-1949

The Third Reich trilogy is a breathtakingly comprehensive account of the origin, development, and fall of Hitler's regime, and it is likely to serve as the benchmark by which such books will be measured for a long time to come.
—Robert Citino, scholar at the American Historical Association
Introduction
Until 1939, most Germans still believed that Europe would not fall into a full-scale war again, and believed that Hitler would maintain peace through diplomatic means when he restored the glory of Germany. However, this glimmer of hope was completely shattered when 1.5 million German troops invaded Poland on September 1. The prelude to World War II was officially unveiled, and Germany began to sweep across the European continent with blitzkrieg. As the occupied areas expanded, the Third Reich implemented a new racial order and eugenics program, which gradually expanded from Jews, Poles, Slavs, and Gypsies to "antisocial people", mental patients, and disabled children. From the "euthanasia" plan to genocide, the Nazis implemented industrial assembly line-style mass murder step by step.
From the Winter War, the Battle of Britain, Operation Barbarossa to the Battle of Stalingrad, Richard J. Evans combines the macro-narrative of the war process with personal accounts of people from all walks of life and all races to reveal how Germany ignited the war in Europe, gain insight into Hitler's ambitions and motives, and fully tell the ins and outs of World War II. He also focuses on the daily experiences and state of mind of ordinary members of the Nazi Party, ordinary Germans, and "non-Germans", delicately depicting how "ordinary people" survived during this tragic war. The book combines narrative, description, and analysis, from battles, policies, intra-party struggles, economic development, and even cultural propaganda, weapons research and development, scientific research to genocide, fully and accurately showing all aspects of the Third Reich from the full-scale war in 1939 to its complete destruction in 1945.