On January 30th, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the German chancellor of a coalition government by President Hindenburg. Within a few months, he had installed a dictatorship, jailing and killing his opponents, terrorizing the rest of the population and driving Jews out of public life. After the grim years of the Great Depression, Germany seemed to have been reborn as a brutal and determined European power. Tracing Hitler's rise, Frank McDonough's first volume in a series culminates with Germany's comprehensive defeat of Poland in 1939.