WINNER OF THE 2016 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE The Second World War was a German war like no other.
Yet 70 years on - despite whole libraries of books about the war\'s origins, course.
Over its course, the Third Reich expended and exhausted all its moral and physical reserves, leading to total defeat in 1945.
The Nazi regime, having started the conflict, turned it into the most horrific war in European history, resorting to genocidal methods well before building the first gas chambers.
WINNER OF THE 2016 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE The Second World War was a German war like no other