Examines Adolf Hitler's closest inner circle members individually and as a group and focuses on Hitler's three most important Nazi men: Goring, Goebbels, and Himmler, with a secondary inspection of Bormann, Speer, and Ribbentrop.
By the middle of 1933 the democracy of the Weimar Republic had been transformed into the police state of the Third Reich, led by Adolf Hitler. In six years Germany found itself radically reshaped and prepared for the war that began on September 1, 1939.
While fishing with his friends off Honolulu on December 7, 1941, teenaged Adam is caught in the midst of the Japanese attack and through the chaos of the subsequent days tries to find his father, a naval officer who was serving on the U.S.S. Arizona when the bombs fell.