The Third Reich at War'Masterly will surely be the standard history for many years to come This is a warning for the future, as much as a judgement on the past' Richard Overy, Daily Telegraph In 1939 Hitler mobilized Germany into all out war. Richard Evans's astonishing, acclaimed history conjures up a whole society plunged into conflict from generals and front line soldiers to Hitler Youth activists and middle class housewives tracing events from the invasion of Poland