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The Nazis - A Warning from History
Samuel West, Fritz Arlt
BBC Warner, 2005
Ten Minutes is missing!
+ Eye opening documentary
+ Manuel Vidal Noguera Documental que hay que ver y volver a ver.
+ Excellent History
+ Excellent documentary
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HITLER AS MILITARY COMMANDER (Pen & Sword Military Classics)
John Strawson
Pen and Sword, 2003
Good BOOK
+ A GREAT BOOK
+ Great Stuff....
+ An excellent analysis.
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Christopher R. Browning
Harper Perennial, 1993
Not for the faint of heart, or the weak of stomach!
+ Ordinary Men is a grisly look at a German killing squad implementing the Final Solution in Poland
+ Frightfully banal
+ Excellent
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Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz
Rudolf Höss
Da Capo Press, 1996
Rudolph Hoess (Auschwitz Kommandant) and the Clarification of Some Holocaust Misconceptions
+ Testimony of the monster
+ How badly the Germans hate the Jews!
+ A very good tranlation
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The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War
Martin Gilbert
Holt Paperbacks, 1987
Mr. Gilbert really brings the tragedy home
+ How many people?
+ Outstanding chronology of Holocaust
Martin Gilbert's the Holocaust is the most comprehinsive and in depth work I have read on this subject, and why it gets 5 stars is because of the very personal nature of this book. Mr. Gilbert reverts the numbers back into real people. When reading other books on the Holocaust I found myself ...
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The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders
William S. Konecky Associates, 1996
Revealing
+ Hard read. Well written/researched.
+ A Difficult Read, But Necessary to Understand the Holocaust
This book removes the mask from those who deny the horror and terror of the Holocaust. An engrossing work that strikes the sensibilities of its readers. The records, letters, and photos, all forbidden, but taken with pride to show their loved ones how much they enjoyed/hated/performed their ...
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The Meaning of Hitler
Sebastian Haffner
Harvard University Press, 2004
Very thought-provoking and explanatory
+ The rise and fall of Hitler - from a different perspective
+ an amazing work
+ Concise and right on the money.
+ Awesome
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Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography
John Toland
Anchor, 1991
Adolf Hitler, a superlative popular history
+ Hitler's darkening spiral
+ Excellent
+ Incredible ...
+ exelent reading
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Hitler: A Biography (One-Volume Edition)
Ian Kershaw
W. W. Norton, 2008
Finally, the one-volume edition of Ian Kershaw's definitive and masterful biography of Hitler. "The Hitler biography of the twenty-first century" (Richard J. Evans), Ian Kershaw's Hitler is a new, distilled, one-volume masterpiece that will become the standard work. From Hitler's origins as a failed artist in fin-de-siécle Vienna to the terrifying last days in his Berlin bunker, Kershaw's ...
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A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II, New Edition
Gerhard L. Weinberg
Cambridge University Press, 2005
Global War
+ Important, One Of A Kind
+ A Very Comprehesive History!
+ I repeat: Needs an in-depth revision since the fall of the iron curtain but a good starting point
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Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945
Max Hastings
Knopf, 2004
An objective account of the last year of WWII.
+ An interesting WW II perspective
+ Good Overview and Story for Late WW2
+ always good reading
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Night and Fog - Criterion Collection
Michel Bouquet, Reinhard Heydrich
Criterion, 2003
A caveat . . .
+ A Vivid and Horrible Description of Horror
+ An Essential Film
+ Chilling
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Inside the Third Reich
Albert Speer
Simon & Schuster, 1997
Successes and Limitations of Allied Bombing
+ Essential History of Hitler's Third Reich
+ Essential History of Hitler's Third Reich
+ Self-serving yet interesting
+ The Memoir of an Architect
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The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
Saul Friedlander
Harper Perennial, 2008
Astonishing history of our darkest hour
+ a great work.minus a small detail
+ An Essential Study of Nazi Germany and the Jews
+ Truly magisterial but something is missing
+ A Dantean Tour of Holocaust Hell by master chronicler Saul Friedlander
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The Third Reich in Power
Richard Evans
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006
A Master Historian Dissecting the Turbulent Third Reich
+ Waiting for the third book
+ A Master Historian Dissecting the Turbulent Third Reich
+ The Master of Disaster
+ Longer
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