Describing the Third Reich from the height of its power to its collapse,
Evans concludes the masterful trilogy that began with The Coming of
the Third Reich and The Third Reich in Power. As in those works, Evans
demonstrates a fluent style and a sweeping grasp of the Third Reich's
history and of the enormous historical literature. The account is peppered
with insightful anecdotes drawn from diaries, letters and speeches.
What comes across most clearly is the supreme arrogance of the Nazis
and the utterly rapacious character of their rule. Evans gives the Holocaust
the centrality it deserves, while also depicting effectively the suffering
of Poles and many others under Nazi domination. Evans offers a nuanced
picture of the lives of Germans, but ultimately, he suggests, the Nazis'
racial ideology thoroughly corrupted German society. Evans narrates
the Reich's end in gripping fashion as the Allies closed in on Germany.
Evans's fellow historians as well as a broader public will read this
work, not quite with pleasure, for there is little joy in this story,
but with admiration for the author's narrative powers

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