Most historians of Nazi Germany focused on Adolf Hitler, who masterminded the Third Reich and managed to turn the world's most professional military into almost entirely slavish loyalists who prosecuted the war brilliantly for a few years, then were unable to put the brakes on his decision to attack his previous partner Josef Stalin's Soviet Russia. The protracted war, over-stretched supply lines, the long, brutal Russian winter, and FDR's decision to begin arming out former Communist foe marked the beginning of the end of Germany's hope of winning the war. Now the Nazis had to fight on both the Eastern and Western fronts, and the U.S. war machine and its key unconquered allies, England, Canada and Australia, turned the tide of war. And the Soviets pushed Germany out of Eastern Europe, both liberating and subjugating the "freed" nations (setting the stage for the Cold War).

It's a definitive history of the Nazi General staff and well-illustrated, including not just photos of each of the generals but also some maps of crucial battles.

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