Having read this book in order, following from The Third Reich in Power, I found the approach of breaking elements of review down by topic rather than chronology helpful. I learned a great deal from this book. Among the things I didn't know going in: (a) While the Jews were always foremost on the list for extermination, the overtly stated policy of the Nazis towards the Poles and Slavs was also annihilationist and differed primarily in terms of time and effort; (b) while the gas chambers in general and Zyklon B in particular deserve their association as symbols of Nazi extermination, comparable numbers of people in general and Jews in particular were executed in myriad other, very personal ways, such as thousands at a time shot and dumped into pits; (c) the German military was extremely involved in these massacres and murders, from time to time leaving such things to the S.S. and others primarily because of military necessity but not generally out of any but the most personal and limited moral objections; (d) Germany could NEVER have won the war, because the pervasive role of racial supremacy and degradation in everything meant that it was effectively unable to either gain allies or effectively exploit the economies of places it conquered; and (e) the "Iron Curtain" later referenced by Churchill vis-a-vis the Soviet Union was, in fact, coined by Goebbels. For those who have NOT read the prior books, I recommend reading them, and I also recommend "The Western Front" and "The Eastern Front" by Nick Lloyd, for an excellent foundation in the unfolding of the First World War (which leads nicely into "The Coming of the Third Reich," Book One of this trilogy). I strongly believe that understanding that conflict is important to understanding the rise of the Nazis.

A great book! Lots of details I did not come across before, the narrator does a first class job too.

Excellent - will listen to it again and again. Great history lesson.