The War Path

<p>From the third of February 1933 when he told his generals in the secret of his ultimate ambition to invade and conquer the East to the third of September 1939 when he left the Berlin Chancellery for the Polish front Adolf Hitler had one obsessive goal - to wage war and achieve German revenge and hegemony.</p><p><br></p><p>It was as the world knows to be a war that would leave forty million dead lay waste most of Europe and half of Asia and destroy the Third Reich.</p><p>As he did in his celebrated and controversial <span style=color: rgba(180 33 0 1)>Hitler's War</span> David Irving sets forth the events from behind Hitler's desk as it were to see and understand each episode through his eyes. His use of original and unpublished firsthand material has led him across Europe searching for documents and correspondence.</p><p><br></p><p>As a result he rewards his readers with a fuller picture of both the political preparation for the war and the intricate network of personal relationships on which Hitler's Reich eventually foundered. He uncovered extensive records of wiretaps made on British and French embassies in Berlin during 1938-39.</p><p><br></p><p>In his assiduous detective work he also located the private papers of Weizs��cker Ribbentrop's state secretary and the diaries of Walther Hewel Ribbentrop's liaison with Hitler. Many pages of photographs from private collections provide new views of Hitler and those who surrounded him.</p><p>Thus Irving draws from the journals and letters of Hitler's subordinates creating an immediate and authentic atmosphere. As a result what have previously seemed inexplicable actions on Hitler's part are illuminated and new light is shed on Nazi Germany in the six years before the war.</p>