Eh. A quick pop-history look at the early years of the Third Reich. Lots of interesting characters are kept in the background, and only shown in little bits. Journalists, Reichsministers, and tyrants all shown too briefly. At least the book got me interested in finding out more about these ancillary figures. 
 The author, bizarrely enough, focuses on some of the most boring and unsympathetic characters possible, a stuffy diplomat and his ... promiscuous daughter. How tiresome. Why on earth didn't Larson focus on any of the more interesting figures? He clearly found a lot.