This is the second of a definitive three-volume history of Germany's Third Reich planned by Cambridge professor Richard Evans. The Third Reich in Power focuses on the period between 1933 and 1939 and how Adolf Hitler's use of terror 'intimidated Germans into acquiescence' to the totalitarianism of his Nazi regime. The arrest and imprisonment of the few brave enough to speak against him - and the awfulness of the camps in which they were held - served to silence any criticism. Targeting the Jews, and homosexuals, and gypsies and prostitutes allowed Hitler to harness the embedded prejudices of German Christianity while Nazism took hold in schools, business and industry. Propaganda and censorship took care of the media. In the first volume, The Coming of the Third Reich, Evans details how Hitler used race, culture and ideology to legitimately take power in 1933. From there, Evans covers the insinuation of Nazism into all aspects of private and public life as Hitler transformed Germany into a machine of war, rebuilding its wrecked economy while purging society with nationalist zeal. Evans will conclude his impressive study with a final volume addressing the war and its aftermath.