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- Length: 35 hrs and 10 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The final volume in Richard J. Evans’s masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the rise and fall of German military might, the mobilization of a “people’s community” to serve a war of conquest, and Hitler’s campaign of racial subjugation and genocide. Already hailed as “a masterpiece” (William Grimes in The New York Times) and “the most comprehensive history… of the Third Reich” (Ian Kershaw), this epic trilogy reaches its terrifying climax in this volume.
Evans interweaves a broad narrative of the war’s progress with viscerally affecting personal testimony from a wide range of people - from generals to front-line soldiers, from Hitler Youth activists to middle-class housewives. The Third Reich at War lays bare the dynamics of a nation more deeply immersed in war than any society before or since.
Fresh insights into the conflict’s great events are here, from the invasion of Poland to the Battle of Stalingrad to Hitler’s suicide in the bunker. But just as important is the re-creation of the daily experience of ordinary Germans in wartime, staggering under pressure from Allied bombing and their own government’s mounting demands upon them. At the center of the book is the Nazi extermination of Europe’s Jews, set in the context of Hitler’s genocidal plans for the racial restructuring of Europe.
Blending narrative, description, and analysis, The Third Reich at War creates an engrossing picture - at once sweeping and precise - of a society rushing headlong to self-destruction and taking much of Europe with it. It is the culmination of a historical masterwork that will remain the most authoritative work on Nazi Germany for years to come.
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- Karen
- 09-03-10
Masterful
The series, taken as a whole, sets the standard for WWII history. These cannot be overlooked, or diminished. Indeed, it is difficult to adequately describe how well researched and written are each of these three volumes. I have read or listened to every history of WWII I have been able to find (well over 50) in English, Russian and French, and up until now Shirer's "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" was, I felt, the definitive historical account of Nazi Germany (if you haven't read/listened to it, you should) even though it was published over 50 years ago. This series surpasses that exceptional work.
This volume is superlative. If you enjoy World War Two history you CANNOT skip this volume, in particular!
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- Alan
- 09-03-10
Excellent history
Well written, well narrated. Most WWII histories dwell on the military aspect, this comes from the other side defining (as well as is possible with such a subject) the thought processes and actions that led to the horrors of the war. The author tells a good story, entertaining, as well as informative while weaving in first person accounts to reinforce his narrative. A long book but you'll be sorry when it ends.
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- Mike From Mesa
- 10-19-10
Simply wonderful
The first thing to say about this entire series is that all 3 books form a wonderful history of the Third Reich. It also seems important to mention that this volume is a history of the Third Reich during the war, not the Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine or Wehrmacht, so there is only limited coverage of the actual battles.
Rather this book concerns itself mostly with government policy concerning those living inside Germany itself and the occupied territories. It is very detailed and I found some sections on the extermination camps very emotionally painful to get through. The book also does not cover some areas that I would like to have heard about. For example, how were Allied soldiers who were minorities treated in prison camps? Did the Wehrmacht follow the Geneva Convention rules or not? What was the relationship between the Wehrmacht and the SS? Since the book is about government policy these areas were not covered in any detail.
Regardless this book, as well as the preceding two volumes, form an invaluable history and should be required reading for anyone who wants to know about the Second World War in Europe. I also agree with another reviewer who suggested that these books, along with Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, should both be read since they are complimentary. Highly recommended.
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- Doc
- 03-28-12
Just do it.
This review is for the entire series. My contribution to the pile of reviews starts with the observation that the work cannot be compared to any other book about WWII or, really, any other history. I'm tolerably well read in the area, and this set of books is unique.
At the outset, I found the narrator troublesome. But, just as I have found on long walks, as I progressed, I realized that his delivery fit the material. Nothing hurried, nothing emotional, nothing dramatic. If you've been to the Viet Nam memorial in DC, you'll know what I mean. It isn't the individual names, but the total list; it isn't the granduer of the monument, it is the monumental display of horror. You, too, will get over it and then take comfort in the methodical recitation of what happened to all the unwanted, particularly the Jewish people.
Some of the reviews complained about the relatively short shrift given to military history and some technological flaws. There are excellent military histories that cover this ground; readers of this book only need that material for contextual reference. For instance, the history of the period we're just passing through isn't about the individual money scams, the individual mortgages and speculations or the indivdual stories of growing disparities in income and assets; rather, it is about the how these individual events came about to overwhelm the financial system as a whole. So it is with Nazi Germany.
For as long as this book is around, it will be difficult for people to deny the Holocaust and it will be difficult to repeat what Hitler and his followers were able to do. Just read it.
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- Kathy Perow
- 06-16-16
Outstanding History
Where does The Third Reich at War rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
The Third Reich at War rates at the top of my audiobook list. Richard Evans brings the Third Reich to life as clearly as if it were drawn from today's news. I've listened to it twice through now and will probably give it a third go. I've been reading WWII history for 50 years (yes, really) and this is one of the best I've read.
Which character – as performed by Sean Pratt – was your favorite?
I've seen other reviewers slam Sean Pratt's narration. He does have odd pauses, but I got used to them and found they helped me absorb the words. This isn't fiction, and shouldn't be read as such. I'm actually looking for more that he's narrated.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
At 30 hours + this is a little more than I'd even try in five or six sittings. The whole series, though, including Coming of the Third Reich and Third Reich in Power, combined with this volume, make a stunning summary of the era.
Any additional comments?
I've recently re-read Rise and Fall of Third Reich, and Evans' history is on a par with Shirer's classic. Shirer has the immediacy of having been in Germany for part of the period, but Evans has the objectivity that time bestows (at least in theory).
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- Joe
- 11-15-13
Best of the Series
What do you say about a book as finely researched, as meticulously executed, as solidly paced, as informative and horrifying and shocking as the Third Reich at War? It is a masterpiece and all I can say to Richard J. Evans is, "Thank You." This is an exceptional book that begins with the invasion of Poland and ends with the Nuremburg Trials. You can read it alone or as part of the larger series: The Coming of the Third Reich and the Third Reich in Power. It is a fantastic series and this book is its pinnacle.
It is not a history of WWII, as that has been done many times. Instead, this is a story of the Third Reich, their leadership at home, their policies, and their wartime strategies. There is, of course, military history here and there is a history of the Holocaust. Both of these sections are told in finite and powerful detail. But this is also the story of Germany and its fall into absolute ruin.
Read these books, they are researched, written, paced, and read with perfection.
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- jon
- 08-20-13
Now, the rest of the story...
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Definitely. This book does a masterful job describing not only the blow by blow accounts of the war, but also the home front of Nazi Germany. The most interesting aspect was the accounts of life in Germany immediately after the war.
People like me who have an interest in this area of history were brought up believing that the Nazis were a small minority who did not enjoy the support of the German people. Furthermore, the German people had no idea about what was happening in the death camps. This book shatters that myth, and destroys the long professed alibi of the German people that it was all the SS and Nazis who committed atrocities.
The accounts of the Wehrmacht's interaction with the civilian population in Eastern Europe and Russia strips away any pretense that the SS were the only bad guys in the war.
One criticism I have of the book is that the author is a too kind to Soviet Russia, and discounts many atrocities that they committed. Keeping that in mind, it was a good read.
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- Adeliese Baumann
- 11-10-12
Finishing the trilogy
Personally, I was more interested in the time periods covered in the first two volumes than I am in the war period, but I found "The Third Reich At War" to be as well-written, meaningful, and interesting as the previous books. Once again, I am grateful for Evans' resourceful use of primary research materials. I enjoy his writing style and way of presenting a complicated series of events. I found the entire series to be profoundly depressing, but how could it be otherwise considering the content? Still, I feel Evans dealt with the subjects in a fair, even-handed way, without resorting to hyperbole or underplaying the horror. Definitely recommended.
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- alex castillo
- 11-01-10
The Third Reich at War...fine work!
This series (please consider the other "Third Reich" titles) is positively perfect for the audiobook format. Richly detailed yet very well paced. From the origins of the Nazi's political power through their ascendancy to their final flameout, Richard Evans must be commended for the polish of this excellent work. Sean Pratt's narration is flawless. Five Stars!
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-28-10
Great history well spoken but...
I cannot understand why a history of this quality would have such affectations both from the writer and the narrator. The author in his preface says he's going to Anglicize certain German words for ease of understanding. Mein Kampf becomes "my struggle" and Der Fuehrer becomes "the leader". These two German terms are so well known that it's hard to listen to their being spoken this way. "The leader" is often confusing. Which leader are we talking about now?
The narrator has done a great job with German and other language terms. But there are glaring mistakes. For example the Reichstag is not pronounced as tag as in license tag but as tahg with a soft g, almost a ch sound. Other such gaffs should have been caught in the editing.
All this makes for a feeling of amateurishness, marring an otherwise superb history.
All three volumes are topical and sequential but not a narrative history with in depth treatments of many important topics like the origins of racial policy and the economics of the Reich. How did Hitler pay for rearmament? It's easy engrossing listening that explains a great deal about how a well educated population could be psychically captured by a lunatic. It's a lesson that will endure.
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- julien
- 11-08-18
misleading title
this book is an history of the third reich jewish policies during the war. I hoped it would be a military history book on how the third reich waged war, tactics, equipment and german point of view. Instead you get a tedious and detailed list of massacres, just in case we forgot that the jews suffered a lot. Seriously, the first 13h are just a list of jewish massacres, i gave up after that...
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- jules
- 06-25-18
A little brief
was looking forward to this one but the author skips over climatic events within a couple of paragraphs. the main of the book concerns concentration camps and the final solution.
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- Michael Embree
- 08-01-21
Misleading
Not a book about the Third Reich at war but of the Third Reich's war crimes and genocide. Not for those looking for a book about military campaigns or a strategic or operational level history. I gave up after 15 or so hours of listening to endless details about various executions and murders.
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- Rev David Linaker
- 06-07-19
A great scholarly work marred by terrible narration
In common with the other two books in the series, the scholarship is flawless, but the narration appalling, with the narrator unable properly to pronounce simple proper nouns. As a result this seriously detracted from enjoyment of the excellent text.
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- crabbit101
- 04-30-15
Superb
The best history of the third reich I've read. Slightly annoyed by some poor pronunciation by the narrator at times!
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- Avid reader
- 08-16-14
Good book. Dreadful reader
What did you like best about The Third Reich at War? What did you like least?
I appreciated the effort and research required to portray the reality of the horror people suffered during the post World War I up to the end of world War II experienced. At worst it was sometimes too graphic for too long. That tends to dull the senses.
What did you like best about this story?
The horror of war is not to be liked. At best we can learn and remember not to repeat it.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
In every possible way. I have never listened to three books - read successively by the same reader - that were read with such sad neglect of proper pausing, intonation and whatever other crimes a narrator can be guilty of. One would have thought or hoped that there had been an overseer of sorts who might have been able to guide the narrator. If it had been my books -I listened to the series of three - i might have torn my heart out. I often had to rewind to get the correct meaning when a sentence ended in mid-air, so to speak. I hardly think the author inserted all those unappropriated commas and full-stops.
Did The Third Reich at War inspire you to do anything?
Yes, to avoid the narrator at all cost.
Any additional comments?
This book and its twi predecessors were done an insult.
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- james
- 12-01-21
Revealing, disturbing and compelling
Don't often write reviews but after listening to this trilogy i felt compelled to comment. The breadth and depth of the Richard J. Evans' researches is comprehensive and the insights he offers to the Third Reich are revealing and often quite disturbing, especially once the Nazis plunge Europe into war. Sean Pratt does an outstanding job of narrating the story too. If you are interested in our recent European past especially rhe period of WW2 then i recommend you listen to this trilogy.
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- Ole Andersen
- 09-08-21
Great
I souls love ifølge the narators were better at pronounciatinos of names forreign to their native language.
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- susanne m munro
- 07-20-21
Excellent.
Fascinating book. I’ll definitely listen again. Learned a few more things about the madness of this particular time.
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- BM
- 06-03-21
Clear and concise publication
I’ve been listening to many audiobooks on the subject of the Second World War recently and this presentation is up there with the best.
I disagree with other reviewers that the narration is off pace, I find it very listenable.
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- Tim Lehmann
- 05-02-18
Comprehensive and fascinating
Well written, concise and researched, with good narration (a few mistakes that should've been edited out, but otherwise very easy to listen to). Recommended
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- Andrew
- 01-28-18
Thorough. Accessible.
This book was thorough both in the period it covered and the detail it provided. The narrative was clear and engaging. The narrator was calm and authoritative. It was an informative and thoughtful book.
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- Matthew
- 04-13-17
Not great
It's an average book, with little to make it distinctive from any other books on ww2 Germany.. It also has a very heavy focus on the Holocaust rather than the military story of the Third Reich.