{"product_id":"the-hitler-years-disaster-1940-1945","title":"The Hitler Years ~ Disaster 1940-1945","description":"'This is a book of big themes, big ideas and world changing events [...] It's a masterpiece' \u003ci\u003eHistory of War Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAt the beginning of 1940 Germany was at the pinnacle of its power. By May 1945 Hitler was dead and Germany had suffered a disastrous defeat.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHitler had failed to achieve his aim of making Germany a super power and had left her people to cope with the endless shame of the Holocaust.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Hitler Years ~ Disaster 1940-1945\u003c\/i\u003e, Professor Frank McDonough charts the dramatic change of fortune for the Third Reich, and challenges long-held accounts of the Holocaust and Germany's ultimate defeat.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eDespite Hitler's grand ambitions and the successful early stages of the Third Reich's advances into Europe, Frank McDonough argues that Germany was only ever a middle-ranking power and never truly stood a chance against the combined forces of the Allies.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\nPraise for Frank McDonough:\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e'Superbly scholarly and just as readable' \u003cb\u003eDan Snow\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e'\u003ci\u003eThe Hitler Years ~ Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e and its companion volume, \u003ci\u003eThe Hitler Years ~ Triumph\u003c\/i\u003e, are not just informative on a nearly encyclopaedic level, they are well-researched, well-structured, and well-written. What's more, they are relevant and challenging. Through questioning the myths that still exist, they encourage the reader to think in a new way, not just about the past, but about the present and the future' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGet History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e'McDonough has provided fascinating insights into the experiences of Germans in a fickle and frightening world' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e, on \u003ci\u003eThe Gestapo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"Wordsworth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46896017408178,"sku":"9781789544688","price":445.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/48945_349992_61166e785e51a1.03523391_9781789544688.jpg?v=1766414865","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/the-hitler-years-disaster-1940-1945","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}