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The Hitler Years

Holocaust 1933-1945

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The Hitler Years

Written by: Frank McDonough
Narrated by: Paul McGann
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Bloomsbury presents The Hitler Years by Frank McDonough, read by Paul McGann.

Bestselling historian Frank McDonough tackles the subject in the same way as his brilliantly reviewed and bestselling titles in this series. The penultimate title in the Hitler's Germany series, the book marks the end of the Second World War, and the end of the Nazi regime, offering the reader a sweeping narrative tackling the major characters, significant events of this horrific period of Nazi doctrine formed in their early years of the 1920s, that would evolve into full-blown genocide of a race of people by the end of World War Two.

The Hitler Years: Holocaust 1933–1945 describes in detail the development of early persecution formulated by Adolf Hitler from as far back as the early 1920s, placing in context what was to come once the Nazi Party gained power in 1933; the Nuremberg Laws to constrain the German-Jewish population. It covers the country’s slow slide into a pre-war policy of intimidation that would culminate in the murderous attacks on ‘Kristallnacht’ (the ‘Night of Broken Glass’). As Europe marched into another global conflict in 1939, tens of thousands of German Jews had fled the country only to be swept up as Hitler’s armies conquered all Western Europe. With the invasion of the Soviet Union, the secret meeting in early 1942 (the Wannsee Conference) would utilise the war in the east to plan in intricate detail the annihilation of the Jewish population on the continent – known to all now as the ‘Final Solution’.

The book draws together and engages with the latest scholarly research, makes extensive use of primary research, presenting a vivid and shocking narrative. A tragic and deadly period in German and European history is brought to life by one of the country’s premier scholars.©2025 Frank McDonough (P)2025 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20th Century Europe Germany Military Modern Wars & Conflicts World War II
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Critic Reviews

A lucid, comprehensive and thoroughly accessible synthesis that aims to explain both how and why the Holocaust unfolded, while never losing sight of the horror or its human element ... A hugely compelling, authoritative and empathetic work. (Roger Moorhouse)
This accessible history will keep the subject alive for a new generation [..] It is about providing an accessible, sober and vivid resource that keeps the subject alive. In this aim, the book succeeds admirably.
A work of acute solemnity that finds a way to be all the more powerful because of its measured restraint.
Holocaust is the fourth and concluding volume in Frank McDonough’s magisterial quartet of Germany history, from the rise of the Weimar Republic to the fall of the Third Reich. Meticulously researched and spanning a vast canvas, McDonough has written a compelling narrative that chronicles in unflinching fashion the diabolical crimes of Hitler’s murderous regime. A tour de force that should serve as a warning to us all.
Praise for The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918-1933:

Yet again McDonough shows why he is one of the best chroniclers of 20th-century Germany.
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