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  • The Hitler Years, Volume 1: Triumph 1933-1939

  • By: Frank McDonough
  • Narrated by: Paul McGann
  • Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (220 ratings)
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By: Frank McDonough
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Summary

On 30th 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 left-wing 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.

Over the course of the years from 1933 to 1939, Hitler won over most of the population to his vision of a renewed Reich. In these years of domestic triumph, cunning manoeuvres, pitting neighbouring powers against each other and biding his time, we see Hitler preparing for the moment that would realise his ambition. But what drove Hitler's success was also to be the fatal flaw of his regime: a relentless belief in war as the motor of greatness, a dream of vast conquests in Eastern Europe and an astonishingly fanatical racism.

In The Hitler Years, Frank McDonough charts the rise and fall of the Third Reich under Hitler's hand. The first volume, Triumph, ends after Germany's comprehensive military defeat of Poland in 1939.

©2020 Frank McDonough (P)2020 Head of Zeus

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"A masterclass in the history of Nazi Germany, with an internationally renowned expert as the teacher." (Get History)

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A fantastically well told, chronological timeline of events leading up to the start of the war. Easy to understand and with clear over arching understanding of the greater picture

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Great listen

Really enjoyed the book and will move on to the next instalment. It is well written and narrated

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Amazing

Top stuff I’ve read about herr hitler before but not in such incredible detail and with new insights my favourite book on him now

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Great Read

Flawless from start to finish and Paul McGann’s narration is spot on. Jumping straight into pt 2.

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Absolutely incredible

Paul McGann’s narration is spot on and I love how Frank McDonough writes in chronological order. The fact that he sites many reputable sources and references the hearsay is fantastic.

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An enlightening and insightful audiook

This is a well written account of how the Nazis came to power and what they did with it. It is very difficult given the sheer level of research and writing that has been done on the subject to make any new arguments or uncover any new sources etc and yet such is the importance of the events that occured I find myself always looking to gain greater insight. The author has produced one of the better overviews of the Nazi era by putting the sheer scale of what Hitler aimed to achieve and the resources that he actually had in comparison to the potential economic and military he boasted of.

The narration is well done and it makes a nice touch to hear a work narrated by someone with the same accent(liverpool) as that of the author.

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brilliant read

a very detailed well written historical book that was explained in an last to understand way brilliant

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Enjoyable and informative

well read by Paul Mcgann whose voice doesn't grate over the German phrases, protagonists or events.

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Entertaing and well read but nothing new here.

Yet another retelling of the Hitler story with nothing new to say. If you want the story of the build up Ww2 this is as good as any other.

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Top Class

Most enjoyable and easy listen. Level of detail could not be better or more interesting. Narration best ever of any audio book.

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