Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century by Alistair Home

Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century (2015) by Alistair Home

HubrisCompelling details of various wars that I never learned in school. Horrifying numbers of dead. Fickle weather has an amazing impact on so much. I would quote some details but had to return to library because another user had put a hold on it.

What I want to know though is where did all the cloth for the hundreds of thousands of uniforms come from? who did the sewing? How did it come to be designed? Who made all the many many banners for the Nazi flags on every building and so on. Plus providing pictures of Hitler for people to profess their reverence.

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Official Secrets

official secretsOfficial Secrets: What the Nazis planned, what the British and Americans Knew, by Richard Breitman, 1998

from Goodreads description:

“They were ordinary people not necessarily motivated by politics or hate. But they were killers on behalf of the German state, members of the Order Police and frontline ethnic cleansers in the massacres that became the Holocaust. Their role has long been underestimated or even overlooked by historians. Until now that is, in a major work which presents a wealth of fascinating new evidence on the planning of the greatest of all crimes.”

 

Time Bomb

1986 style book jacketTime Bomb: The race between two geniuses to create the one weapon that will decide World War II, by Malcolm C. MacPherson, 1986

Enrico Fermi and Werner Heisenberg, proteges of Nils Bohr, both won Noble Prizes in physics when young men. Fermi fled to USA, Heisenberg stayed in Nazi Germany.

Really good book. Reads like a suspense story. Available used on Amazon.