Books: Michael Burleigh, The Third Reich - A New History There a lot of books about Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, but if you wanna read only one, this is the one I would recommend after having read through all the standards this year. "Hitler" by Joachim Fest deals way more with the charakter of the dictator himself, but this book will give you a much broader and deeper understanding of the madness behind the Third Reich. Just check out the cover which shows an old poster of Hitler as a knight looking for the holy grail. That should kind of point you into the direction what this book is about. A must-read, as they say....

Samuel Johnson prize for Non-Fiction 2001
Buy it through this site: The Third Reich. A New History, Pan Books, London, 2000.