Frank McDonough

The Hitler Years: Triumph, 1933-1939

The Hitler Years: Disaster, 1940-1945

This is a shocking but ultimately inspirational biography of a German heroine who defied Hitler and was executed for her beliefs.

The Real Story of the Woman who Defied Hitler

Sophie Scholl

A New History of the Third Reich 1933-1945

Hitler Years

Name as a 2016 Book of the Year by the Spectator A Daily Telegraph 'Book of the Week' (August 2015) Longlisted for 2016 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize Ranked in 100 Best Books of 2015 in the Daily Telegraph Professor Frank McDonough is one of the leading scholars and most popular writers on the history of Nazi Germany. Frank McDonough's work has been described as, 'modern history writing at its very best...Ground-breaking, fascinating, occasionally deeply revisionist' by renowned historian Andrew Roberts. Drawing on a detailed examination of previously unpublished Gestapo case files this book relates the fascinating, vivid and disturbing accounts of a cross-section of ordinary and extraordinary people who opposed the Nazi regime. It also tells the equally disturbing stories of their friends, neighbours, colleagues and even relatives who were often drawn into the Gestapo's web of intrigue. The book reveals, too, the cold-blooded and efficient methods of the Gestapo officers. This book will also show that the Gestapo lacked the manpower and resources to spy on everyone as it was reliant on tip offs from the general public. Yet this did not mean the Gestapo was a weak or inefficient instrument of Nazi terror. On the contrary, it ruthlessly and efficiently targeted its officers against clearly defined political and racial 'enemies of the people'. The Gestapo will provide a chilling new doorway into the everyday life of the Third Reich and give powerful testimony from the victims of Nazi terror and poignant life stories of those who opposed Hitler's regime while challenging popular myths about the Gestapo.

The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police

The Gestapo

From historian Frank McDonough, the first volume of a new chronicle of the Third Reich under Hitler's hand. On January 30th, 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 leftwing opponents, terrorizing the rest of the population and driving Jews out of public life. He embarked on a crash program of 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 maneuvers, pitting neighboring powers against each other and biding his time, we see Hitler preparing for the moment that would realize 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.

Major international experts offer new interpretations of the key aspects of the origins of the Second World War.

The Origins of the Second World War: An International Perspective

There was much popular support for Hitler's regime in Nazi Germany, and little widespread domestic opposition or resistance. However, a number of individuals amd small groups, from all sections of society, did engage in acts of public defiance or resistance against the regime. This opposition came from the Christian churches; communists, socialists and industrial workers; conservative groups; elements within the army; students and the German youth; and Jews. This book looks at the nature of this opposition and the historical debate surrounding it.

Opposition and Resistance in Nazi Germany

An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. This book examines the key roles played by Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain in the events that led to the outbreak of the Second World War. It looks at Hitler's foreign-policy aims, why appeasement became British foreign policy and, most extensively, the role of Chamberlain and appeasement in the unfolding international crisis of the late 1930s. Using a wide range of primary sources, Frank McDonough offers a generally critical interpretation of Chamberlain and appeasement, and suggests that standing up to Hitler earlier may have prevented war. The book also features a detailed analysis of the historical debates surrounding the issue of appeasement.

Hitler, Chamberlain and Appeasement

The second volume in a new, immensely readable narrative of the rise and catastrophic fall of the Nazi regime by a respected expert on the Third Reich. At the beginning of 1940 Germany was at the pinnacle of its power. By May 1945 Hitler was dead and Germany had suffered a disastrous defeat. Hitler had failed to achieve his aim of making Germany a super power and had left her people to cope with the endless shame of the Holocaust. In The Hitler Years ~ Disaster 1940-1945, Professor Frank McDonough charts the dramatic change of fortune for the Third Reich, and challenges long-held accounts of the Holocaust and Germany's ultimate defeat. Despite Hitler's grand ambitions and the successful early stages of the Third Reich's advances into Europe, Frank McDonough argues that Germany was only ever a middle-ranking power and never truly stood a chance against the combined forces of the Allies. Praise for Frank McDonough: 'Superbly scholarly and just as readable' DAN SNOW 'McDonough has provided fascinating insights into the experiences of Germans in a fickle and frightening world' THE TIMES, on THE GESTAPO

The Hitler Years, Volume 2: Disaster 1940-1945

In this controversial reevaluation of Neville Chamberlain and appeasement, the author argues that Chamberlain believed a Second World War would be disastrous for Britain, and focused all his energies to avoid it. The book sets Chamberlain's actions within a wider chronological framework and takes a fresh look at the underlying influences on the policy of appeasement within British society. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Neville Chamberlain, Appeasement, and the British Road to War

Many major world events have occurred since the last key anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War, and these events have had a dramatic impact on the international stage: 9/11, the Iraq War, climate change and the world economic crisis. This is an opportune moment to bring together a group of major international experts who will offer a series of new interpretations of the key aspects of the origins of the Second World War. Each chapter is based on original archival research and written by scholars who are all leading experts in their fields. This is a truly international collection of articles, with wide breadth and scope, which includes contributions from historians, and also political scientists, gender theorists, and international relations experts. This is an important contribution to scholarly debate on one of the most important events of the 20th century and a subject of major interest to the general reader, historians, students and researchers, policy makers and conflict prevention experts.

The Holocaust is a subject of enormous historical importance. The murder of approximately 6 million Jews stands apart as a perhaps the most horrendous episode in world history. In this fresh introduction, McDonough examines the racial war-within-a-war, outlining controversies and examining how it has been popularised and institutionalised.

The Holocaust

'Superbly scholarly and just as readable. A chilling, meticulous record of state brutality that is more compelling than any novel' DAN SNOW on THE GESTAPO. On 30 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 leftwing 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.

Triumph 1933-1939

The Hitler Years

„O mărturie cutremurătoare, meticulos detaliată, a brutalității statale, care este mai convingătoare decât orice roman." — Dan Snow O privire incisivă ce surprinde viața cotidiană în cel de–al Treilea Reich, prezentând mărturiile cutremurătoare ale victimelor terorii naziste și analizând cu luciditate miturile larg răspândite despre Gestapo și modul de funcționare al acestuia „Această fascinantă și captivantă lucrare, bazată pe dosare originale din arhivele Gestapoului, reunește o serie întreagă de istorii care aduc la lumină soarta tragică a victimelor terorii naziste și motivațiile cetățenilor germani responsabili de denunțarea lor. Examinând în detaliu modul în care Gestapoul i-a tratat pe evrei, comuniști, disidenții religioși și pe toți marginalia societății, McDonough a realizat o strălucită, bine scrisă și profund semnificativă analiză a faimoasei poliții secrete a lui Hitler." – Andrew Roberts „Scrisă cu o superbă competență științifică, dar oferind o lectură foarte accesibilă." – Dan Snow „…minuțios documentată și elegant scrisă… Gestapo este în egală măsură surprinzătoare și edificatoare și stabilește o nouă ștachetă pentru investigarea unui subiect de o importanță crucială." – Roger Moorhouse Construită pe baza unor cercetări efectuate în arhive nepublicate până acum, cartea de față constituie cea mai detaliată, concludentă și demnă de încredere prezentare a poliției secrete a lui Hitler – Gestapoul. Lucrarea revelă modul în care această organizație – care nu era atât de mare pe cât se credea – a reușit, prin manipulări și înțelegeri ascunse cu populația civilă, dar beneficiind și de surprinzător de numeroasele denunțuri voluntare din partea acesteia, să devină un instrument infailibil al terorii. Deși era o instituție puternică, nu era invincibilă, iar McDonough prezintă deopotrivă poveștile fascinante și mai puțin cunoscute ale celor care s-au opus regimului nazist și administrației sale opresive.

Gestapo. Mit și realitate despre poliția secretă a lui Hitler

Zdařile napsaná a přehledně strukturovaná publikace představuje jednu z řady složek nacistického represivního aparátu, a to tajné státní policie, známé pod zkratkovým slovem gestapo. Autor, aniž by čtenáře ochudil o výklad vzniku a formování nacistické tajné policie a její struktury, se vyhýbá statistickým metodám sociologizujícího dějepisectví a nezapírá své zaujetí „malými dějinami“. Čtenář tak dostává možnost seznámit se s řadou strhujících „mikropříběhů“ mužů i žen, kteří nalezli odvahu k odporu vůči nacistickému režimu a jeho ideologii, anebo jen prostě nezapadali do představ o „novém německém člověku“, ale i jejich přátel, členů rodiny či sousedů. Otevírá se mu tak široké panorama každodenního fungování jednoho z hlavních nástrojů represe a současně je konfrontován s příběhy hrdinství a vzdoru, ale i mnoha lidských tragédií, tak jak je autor získal pečlivým studiem mnoha osobních svazků. Frank McDonough (1957) je profesorem mezinárodních dějin na univerzitě v Liverpoolu.

Mýtus a realita Hitlerovy tajné policie

Gestapo

Now fully revised and reformatted, Hitler and the Rise of the Nazi Party is an indispensible guide to the history of the Nazi party between its initial electoral breakthrough in 1930 and its victory in 1933. Arguing that the Nazis owed their success as much to Hitler’s charismatic leadership and their own effective propaganda and organisation as to the weakness of the Weimar regime, Frank McDonough provides an original perspective on the subject as well as a concise, readable introduction to key events and debates. This new edition includes: A new introduction on the broad context of Weimar Germany Two new chapters on the reasons for the Nazi breakthrough in 1930 and on the crucial 1930-1933 period New clearer student-friendly format Supported by an expanded documents section and fully revised bibliography, a chronology of key events and a who’s who of leading figures, Hitler and the Rise of the Nazi Party will provide an invaluable introduction for any student of this fascinating period.

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