Is Anything Stronger Than the Bond Between Parent and Child? It's the summer of 1969. After having visited the country that once held her hostage in three concentration camps as it stole everything and everyone she loved, Dr. Bridget Castle has finally made peace with her past. However, things take a drastic turn when a family friend claims to have spotted a woman who was killed in a Blitz attack, and questions arise about the prospect of the deceased natural daughter of Bridget's adopted parents possibly being alive. To get to the bottom of things, the Nazi who raised Bridget's brother offers to fund an intense investigation and promises to leave no stone unturned. But as the investigator uncovers clues in the present, remnants of the past taunt Bridget and threaten to smother her. As life shows her again that family is connected by more than mere genetics, will she be able to embrace the revelations that are unearthed?

The year is 1968, and the Vietnam War is in full swing. Dr. Bridget Castle, a neurosurgeon in Boston, handles the victims of anti-war protests, the casualties of war, and the stress of being a woman in a male-dominated profession with ease. Her husband, her parents, and her patients all love and respect her, but her tight-knit world is in danger of unraveling when someone from her past shows up and threatens to expose her closest-held secret: that she is a Concentration Camp survivor. For more than twenty-three years, Bridget has walked in the shoes of a girl killed in the Blitz, blurring the line of when her own identity as a German Jew ended and when she assumed the role of changeling. If not for her childhood diary to remind her of all she endured, she would be completely successful in taking on the memories of the girl she replaced. But when the son of a Nazi soldier is placed in her care, she finds herself unable to deny her past any longer. The last time Bridget had to stare into the face of evil, she learned, despite losing everything, just how strong she was. Now that the ghosts of her past have awakened, will she be strong enough to avenge the life that was stolen from her?

The year is 1969. Dr. Bridget Castle is back for a sequel where treating the victims of the turbulent Vietnam War only serves as a painful reminder of another war that she had to endure. After surviving three Concentration Camps and making her way through medical school with the dream of becoming a neurosurgeon in a male-dominated profession, Bridget was certain that conflict and confrontation were things of the past. Now, having reunited with the brother she thought was lost to her forever, Bridget travels to West Germany at the behest of his physician, even though she fears that once she sets foot back in the country that once held her prisoner, claimed her family, and robbed her of her childhood, she won't be able to contain the white-hot rage that's been smoldering inside her for the past three decades. In anticipation of meeting the Nazi who raised her brother, Bridget calculates just how she might confront him and unleash her fury on one who embodies everything she despises. But she doesn't count on just how many ghosts of the past are lurking around each corner. The horrors of the Holocaust that she witnessed firsthand still haunt her, and she intends to hold one of Hitler's own accountable. As she squares off with the Nazi and reaches the hour of reckoning, will she be willing to trade in all she's worked for to gain a fleeting taste of revenge?

D.G. Williamson's account of the origins, course and downfall of the Third Reich addresses the reasons for Hitler's rise to power and examines how the Nazi regime consolidated its grip on power during the period March 1933 to August 1934.

Michael Burleigh's The Third Reich presents a major study of one of the twentieth century's darkest periods. Until now there has been no up-to-date, one-volume, international history of Nazi Germany, despite its being among the most studied phenomena of our time. The Third Reich restores a broad perspective and intellectual unity to issues that have become academic subspecialties and offers a brilliant new interpretation of Hitler's evil rule. Filled with human and moral considerations that are missing from theoretical accounts, Michael Burleigh's book gives full weight to the experience of ordinary people who were swept up in, or repelled by, Hitler's movement and emphasizes how international themes for Nazi Germany appealed to many European nations. It also focuses on the Nazi's wartime conduct to dominate the Continental economy and involve gigantic population transfers and exterminations, recruitment of foreign labor, and multinational armies.

"This book is a collection of documents, mostly translated from the German, that covers the entire Third Reich, from the beginnings of National Socialism in Munich in 1919, through the rise of Nazism in the 1930s, and ultimately the defeat of the Third Reich. It is wide-ranging, covering the core doctrine of anti-Semitism, education, German youth, women and marriage, science, health, the Church, literature, visual arts, music, the body, industry, sports, and the resistance"--

Defined by the messianic, iconic figure of Adolf Hitler, the twelve years of the Third Reich were one of the pivotal periods of the modern age. From small beginnings in the 1920s, the Nazi Party rose to a position of absolute power in Germany, bringing with it the militarization of society, the apparatus of state terror and vicious discrimination against political opponents, the gypsies, homosexuals, and, above all, the Jews. Hitler's ambition thrust the world into a destructive and bloody conflict that led to the annihilation of millions of Europeans and, eventually, the total collapse of his regime. The Third Reich: A Chronicle charts the rise and fall of Nazi power in a concise and compelling narrative of the period, amplified by extensive quotations from documents, letters, diaries and oral testimony. Authoritative, informative and sumptuously illustrated, written by a scholar steeped in knowledge of the period, The Third Reich: A Chronicle brings the bloody realities of war, conquest and genocide vividly to life.

Seventy years after its demise, historian Richard J. Evans charts the ways our understanding of the Third Reich has changed.

"Brilliant.” —Washington Post "The clearest and most gripping account I've read of German life before and during the rise of the Nazis." —A. S Byatt, Times Literary Supplement “The generalist reader, it should be emphasized, is well served. . . . The book reads briskly, covers all important areas—social and cultural—and succeeds in its aim of giving “voice to the people who lived through the years with which it deals.” —Denver Post There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand than Hitler’s rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. With The Coming of the Third Reich, Richard Evans, one of the world’s most distinguished historians, has written the definitive account for our time. A masterful synthesis of a vast body of scholarly work integrated with important new research and interpretations, Evans’s history restores drama and contingency to the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis, even as it shows how ready Germany was by the early 1930s for such a takeover to occur. The Coming of the Third Reich is a masterwork of the historian’s art and the book by which all others on the subject will be judged.