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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 940.53 EAN: 9780752439396 ISBN: 0752439391 Label: NPI Media Group Manufacturer: NPI Media Group Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: 2006-10-15 Publisher: NPI Media Group Studio: NPI Media Group
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Concise and complete account of the last war and first post-war years Comment: This book is the first history of the Third Reich I know which does not begin or end with May 8th, 1945. This unusual approach to tell the story of the fighting against Nazism in one single book, from the preparations of the landing in Normandy to the judgements in Nuremberg, from the evolution of Allied war strategies to post-war denazification makes the book very much worth reading. Toby Thacker's book is an enormous achievement and I cannot remember having read such an interesting, concise and complete account of the last war and the first post-war years. The coherence of the Allied fight against nazism can be seen - for the first time ?! - in this book. Toby Thacker's monograph also stands out because of the important amount of documents the author found in various archives across Europe (including 16 pages of photographs and documents from the author's private collection) and the many accounts of contemporary witnesses which are cited. This is the first history of the Third Reich written in English I know that gives Victor Klemperer the place he deserves as a neutral witness gifted with an exceptional accuracy of observation. Toby Thacker does not leave out any of the important war and post-war events but also finds time to comment on topics that have recently been widely discussed as the Dresden bombing. Thacker never risks losing his neutral standpoint whatever subject he treats and his balanced view on the innumerable atrocities committed in and outside the concentration camps and the dreadful mass rapes during the Allied occupation permit a use of Thacker's monograph as a textbook in history classes. The maps at the end of the book and his well-adjusted use of quotations could serve in class very well either. "The End of the Third Reich" is written in a clear and accurate language and Toby Thacker never loses the plot. More Reviews