Riveting, timely and truly revelatory. The Organisation Todt is the Nazi-era secret that still needs to emerge from the shadows. Charles Dick's book does that and so much more

DAMIEN LEWIS, author of SAS Brothers in Arms and The Nazi Hunters

Well-researched and scholarly . . . Reminds us how many criminals got away . . . When the Second World War came, OT had new priorities: the Atlantic Wall, submarine pens, mines . . . This is where Dick lifts up the stone: much of what OT achieved, or tried to achieve, required slave labour. As such, OT played its part in the Final Solution and other war crimes. The book is a depressing reminder that most of the leaders of the organisation, and the chief brutes who worked under them, got away with it

Simon Heffer, Telegraph

Dick writes well and provides a mass of readable information on how Organisation Todt exhibited some of the most brutal aspects of Nazi rule, above all in its treatment of foreign workers. His two books have well and truly put the organisation on the historical map

Richard J. Evans, Literary Review

The complete story of Organisation Todt, the Nazis' little known, brutal engineering operation and its works across German-occupied Europe

Mark Broatch, New Zealand Herald, Books of the Year

Mr Dick's account of Speer as head of the OT makes for compelling and sobering reading . . . In addition to letting the perpetrators ultimately go free, Mr Dick writes, “postwar trials have contributed very little to public understanding of the vast scope and brutal nature of the OT's activities.” His book performs that important task at last

Arthur Herman, Wall Street Journal

Charles Dick has done a major service to the history of the Third Reich … The Organisation Todt exploited camp prisoners and forced labourers as ruthlessly and murderously as the better-known SS, but its responsibility has never been properly explored. Dick gives us more “ordinary men” capable of committing inhuman crimes, a story still pertinent in today's troubled world

RICHARD OVERY, author of Blood and Ruins