Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, President of the Reichstag, Prime Minister of Prussia, and Hitler's designated successor, Herman Goering was one of the most capable--and sinister--leading figures of the Third Reich. In this classic biography, Manvell and Fraenkel have drawn on interviews with members of Goering's family, his former associates, his enemies, and his servants. His extravagant lifestyle and tastes, his unusual habits and uniforms, his cunning, ambition, and casual brutality are all explored in dramatic detail. The result is a thorough and intimate portrayal of this dangerous and contradictory man and an insightful history of the rise and ultimate collapse of the Third Reich.