To grasp the events of the 1930s and WW II.....I have a long list of books that I'd recommend for a read, but I'll list the ten that I consider at the top:
1. The Dark Valley by Piers Brendon. Excellent read of the 1930s and European landscape.
2. Backing Hitler by Robert Gellately. Good read of the 1920s/1930s with Hitler.
3. Blitzed, by Robert Ohler. A decent history of drugs, Germany, the 1920s, 1930s, and how drugs figured into WW II.
4. Hitler's First Hundred Days, by Peter Fritzsehe. Very detail orientated book, recently published. Really dives into 1933 and the momentum created.
5. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons, by Henry Charles Mahoney. A rarely read book describing the 1914 to 1915 era, the frustrating handling of this one British citizen within the system, and the German landscape.
6. Death of Hitler, Jean-Christophe Brisard. Unusual details after Hitler's death and the Soviet 'story'.
7. Kaiser Wilhelm II: Life and Power, by Christopher Clark. Covers the last Kaiser and the entry into WW I.
8. Before the Deluge: Portrait of Berlin, by Otto Friedrich. Deals strictly with Berlin of the 1920s, after the war, and it's been out for over 25 years. Paints a great landscape of the city.
9. Who Financed Hitler: 1919 to 1933, by James Pool. This has been around for more than 20 years and you probably will have trouble finding the book. A lot of details and research involved. He carries you all the way up to the election era of 1933.
10. Stormtroopers, by Daniel Siemens. It's a long book and that's a minor slam against it. He gives you an awful lot of details over the Brownshirts, their development, and their end. Over 500 pages, and it's a hefty reading project.
All of these....sadly.....are a fairly long-read.
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