The Third Reich: The New Order

This book was almost donated to Purple Heart, but I saved it. Finally, I thought its oversized dimensions in a set of three was awkward in my library. And, how good could WWII history distilled from magazine journalism be? I decided to pull it out and, peruse it, and dispense with it. At least with this volume, I was pleasantly surprised. Like The Bridge at Andau, this work charts the dramatic changes through named individuals, personalizing the heavy boot beat to war.

War is not a topic in this volume, although it looms ominously on the horizon. This work gives an overview of something I am very interested in; how Nazism took root and hold of the German nation. It took over a decade, but this book tracks the tendrils into paramilitary show more your organizations, encompassing once unallied farmers, the Junker landed aristocracy, labor movements and industry. show less

Well illustrated ephemera of Third-Riech era history. Somewhat facile and dumbed down text. The illustrations are very well presented. Authored by the unnamed "editors of Time-Life Books."

Wanting to research the internal status of Germany pre-war, politically and economically, I ordered and began reading several histories. I had to back up and read this book first to have a general overview of the facts before reading deeper. So this is a valuable resource for the beginner.