Reviews
Kershaw's comprehensive research, measured prose, and commonsense insight combine in a mesmerizing explanation of how and why Nazi Germany chose self-annihilation., This is an astonishing story well told by the reigning English-speaking master of Third Reich history...A carefully considered and powerfully told saga., Kershaw''s comprehensive research, measured prose, and commonsense insight combine in a mesmerizing explanation of how and why Nazi Germany chose self-annihilation., [A]superb examination of the final defeat of Hitler''s tyranny...an excellent portrait of the regime''s death throes., "Kershaw's comprehensive research, measured prose, and commonsense insight combine in a mesmerizing explanation of how and why Nazi Germany chose self-annihilation." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "[A]superb examination of the final defeat of Hitler's tyranny...an excellent portrait of the regime's death throes." - Booklist (starred review) "This is an astonishing story well told by the reigning English-speaking master of Third Reich history...A carefully considered and powerfully told saga." - Kirkus (starred review), [A]superb examination of the final defeat of Hitler's tyranny...an excellent portrait of the regime's death throes., "This is an astonishing story well told by the reigning English-speaking master of Third Reich history...A carefully considered and powerfully told saga." Kirkus (starred review), "Kershaw's comprehensive research, measured prose, and commonsense insight combine in a mesmerizing explanation of how and why Nazi Germany chose self-annihilation." Publishers Weekly (starred review)