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The Hitler Years - Disaster 1940-1945

The Hitler Years, Book 2

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The Hitler Years - Disaster 1940-1945

By: Frank McDonough
Narrated by: Paul McGann
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The second volume in a new, immensely listenable narrative of the rise and catastrophic fall of the Nazi regime by a respected expert on the Third Reich.

At 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.

Hitler had failed to achieve his aim of making Germany a super power and had left its people to cope with the endless shame of the Holocaust.

In The Hitler Years - Disaster 1940-1945, 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.

Despite 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.

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Any book about Hitler has to be careful not to become a brief history of WW2 and for me there was not enough of an attempt to understand Hitler. An example would be the statement in the final chapter about how Germany would have been better off without Italy in the war, but what was it about Hitler which bound him to support and indulge Mussolini?
I would recommend this book. It is more accessible and an easier read than Ian Kershaw’s Hitler.
The performance of the reader is great but there are a couple of small gaps from poor production, but this did not distract from the book.

Very enjoyable. A little superficial.

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An original take on events we think we know about. Frank McDonagh's book in two volumes, takes a chronological approach. Detailed, with new information and new angles on events, it is very accessible without ever trivializing aspects. Paul McGann is such an appropriate choice of narrator hailing from Liverpool like the author. Moreover, his narration is excellent, adopting exactly the right, measured tone throughout. Utterly professional performance, very listenable. Thank you.

An original take on events we think we know about

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Very well written and the author makes the read super enticing. Great insight into hitler and his inner circle and the implications of his for lebensraum

Great listen

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I truly wish the narrator didn't have such unusual pauses. They appear to happen at unlikely points in a sentence. Very interesting book. Really like the author's works.

Informentative End to the Series

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Very well researched and presented history. Had the right amount of detail for me. Highly recommend. Very good narrator.

Excellent overview, well narrated

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