Do we need another wrist-breaking book about Adolf Hitler, the Third Reich and the second world war? Since Ian Kershaw published his two-volume biography of the Führer 20 years ago, there have been at least a dozen similarly weighty tomes on the war by historians including Max Hastings, Andrew Roberts, Antony Beevor and Kershaw himself; not to mention more recent massive lives of the Nazi dictator by Brendan Simms and the German historians Peter Longerich and Volker Ullrich.
Nigel Jones
How Hitler’s great gamble nearly paid off
The Führer’s only hope of conquering Europe lay in a short Blitzkrieg before his enemies could rally — and initially it succeeded, says Frank McDonough
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