The final volume in Evans's masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the rise and fall of German military might, the mobilization of a people's community to serve a war of conquest, and Hitler's campaign of racial subjugation and genocide.

Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2008.

"Beasts in human form". Lightning victory ; The new racial order ; "A dreadful rabble" ; "Life unworthy of life" -- Fortunes of war. "The work of Providence" ; "Pathological ambition" ; Operation Barbarossa ; In the tracks of Napoleon -- "The final solution". "No pity, nothing" ; Launching genocide ; The Wannsee Conference ; "Like sheep to the slaughter" -- The new order. The sinews of war ; "No better off than pigs" ; Under the Nazi heel ; Total war -- "The beginning of the end". Germany in flames ; The long retreat ; "Hell has broken out" ; A new "time of struggle" -- German moralities. Fear and guilt ; Cultures of destruction ; Deadly science ; Resistance -- Downfall. "A last spark of hope" ; "We'll take a world with us" ; The final defeat ; Aftermath.