H. R. Trevor-Roper

1FOREWORDBy Marshal of the RAF Lord Tedder, gcb. Deputy Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force, 1943-51here used to be a school of historical thought which held that the course of human history was determined largely by political and economic factors rather than by the characters and actions...

Chapter One HITLER AND HIS COURT NOW that the New Order is past, and the Thousand-Year Reich has crumbled in a decade, we are able at last, picking among the still smoking rubble, to discover the truth about that fantastic and tragical episode. It is a chastening as well as an interesting...