"First published in Great Britain in 2015 by The Bodley Head"--Title-page verso

Defending the attack. Unwelcome war ; Closing ranks ; Extreme measures -- Masters of Europe. Breaking out ; Winners and losers -- The shadow of 1812. German Crusade ; The first defeat -- Stalemate. The shared secret ; Scouring Europe ; Writing to the dead -- The war comes home. Bombing and retaliation ; 'Holding out' ; Borrowed time -- Total defeat. Digging in ; Collapse ; Finale -- Crossing the abyss

"Drawing on a wealth of first-hand testimony, the German War is the first foray for many decades into how the German people experienced the Second World War. Told from the perspective of those who lived through it-- soldiers, school-teachers and housewives; Nazis, Christians and Jews-- its masterful historical narrative sheds fresh and disturbing light on the beliefs, hopes, and fears of people who embarked on, continued, and fought to the end, a brutal war of conquest and genocide"--