In 1937, Adolf Hitler presented his plan for the conquest of Eastern Europe to his military commanders, and the dissenters were silenced one by one, setting the stage for the most calamitous war in history. Going behind the scenes in Berlin, London, Moscow, and Washington, Benjamin Carter Hett reveals the unsettled politics within each country in the wake of the German dictator's growing provocations. Even as anti-Nazi forces inside and outside Germany came to understand Hitler's true menace and learned to oppose him, Hett shows how larger-than-life figures struggled to turn events to their advantage.