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The Third Reich at War   Richard J. Evans
Third, huge volume of Evans’ trilogy history of Hitler’s Reich. Not really about battles. Much more about the strategy, decisions, and administration of the army and Nazi government during the war from September 1939-May 1945. While organized more chronologically than the previous volume, it still covers the continuation and expansion of policies implemented before the war. Amazing that the Nazi leadership knew as early as fall 1941 that they did not have the industrial capacity to win the war. Diabolical, the savagery and brutality were hard to read. Interested in the details of the domestic social situation in Germany during the war. Excellent, informative history, as were the two preceding volumes.