MacDonogh, Giles, — 1938 - HITLER'S GAMBLE.

Constable, London, 2010, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, xxii inc. map, 407pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, as at 1st January 1938 Germany was led by a Nazi dominated right wing coalition with Hitler as Chancellor, army commanders were still independent, apart from the re-occupation of the Rhineland Germany's borders were those defined in the Treaty of Versailles and the Jews still held their own property. By 1st January 1939 non-Nazis had been purged from power, Hitler had assumed total control of the armed forces, Germany had occupied Austria and the German speaking areas of Czechoslovakia and the Jews had been dispossessed, beaten and many had been killed. The author descibes the full realisation of Nazi ideology and the true horror of the regime, slight roll and slant to spine with numerous light vertical creased, lightly rubbed at extrems., edges a little tanned, good plus,