The first volume of a new narrative history of the rise and fall of the Nazi regime, by an expert on the Third Reich. ''One of the books of the year'' Dan Snow ''A masterclass in the history of Nazi Germany'' Get History ''What makes this volume really stand out is its stylish design and more than 80 coloured photographs'' Military HistoryOn 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the German Chancellor of a coalition government by President Hindenburg. Within a few months he had installed a dictatorship, jailing and killing his leftwing opponents, terrorising the rest of the population and driving Jews out of public life. He embarked on a crash programme on militaristic Keynesianism, reviving the economy and achieving full employment through massive public works, vast armaments spending and the cancellations of foreign debts. After the grim years of the Great Depression, Germany seemed to have been reborn as a brutal and determined European power.
