Introduction
Chapter 1
Aimless Years, 1889–1918
Chapter 2
Moving from Left to Right, 1919–23
Chapter 3
Building a Party, 1923–29
Chapter 4
Manoeuvring into Office, 1929–33
Chapter 5
Shaping the Third Reich, 1933–39
Chapter 6
Hitler’s Foreign Policies, 1933–38
Chapter 7
Hitler’s Germany
Chapter 8
Adolf Hitler – Image and Reality
Chapter 9
Towards War, 1938–39
Chapter 10
Hitler’s Reich at War, 1939–41
Chapter 11
Defeat and Disaster, 1942–45
Chapter 12
Conclusion
Biography
Michael Lynch is an Honorary Visiting Fellow of the School of Historical Studies, Leicester University. He has written over thirty books on European and Chinese history; his recent publications include Authoritarian States (2015), China 1839–1997 (2016), Mao (2017) and The Chinese Civil War (2022). He has lectured in Europe and Australia and has also appeared as a ‘talking head’ in a number of television history documentaries.
