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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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Absolutely superb. I find audiobooks difficult. It is hard to maintain concentration. But this was easy. Extremely well written and beautifully narrated. Having a pretty good knowledge of the subject matter certainly helped and maybe that is the secret to fully appreciating a non-fiction audiobook. My next audiobook will be a Frank McDonough.

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