The Coming of the Third Reich

<b>"Brilliant.” —<b><i>Washington Post<br></i></b><br><b>"The clearest and most gripping account I've read of German life before and during the rise of the Nazis." —A. S Byatt, <i>Times Literary Supplement</i></b><br><br>“The generalist reader, it should be emphasized, is well served. . . . The book reads briskly, covers all important areas—social and cultural—and succeeds in its aim of giving “voice to the people who lived through the years with which it deals.” —<b><i>Denver Post</i></b><br></b><br>There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand than Hitler’s rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. With <i>The Coming of the Third Reich</i>, Richard Evans, one of the world’s most distinguished historians, has written the definitive account for our time. A masterful synthesis of a vast body of scholarly work integrated with important new research and interpretations, Evans’s history restores drama and contingency to the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis, even as it shows how ready Germany was by the early 1930s for such a takeover to occur. <i>The Coming of the Third Reich</i> is a masterwork of the historian’s art and the book by which all others on the subject will be judged. <b><b>The definitive account of Hitler's rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany, from the author of <i>The Third Reich in Power </i>and <i>The Third Reich at War.</i><br></b><br>"The clearest and most gripping account I've read of German life before and during the rise of the Nazis." —A. S Byatt, <i>Times Literary Supplement<br><br></i>"Impressive in its command of an immense literature, perceptive in analysis, fluent in style, and humane in judgment, this work could only have been produced by a master historian." —Sir Ian Kershaw</b><br><br><b>"Brilliant." —Richard Cohen, <i>The Washington Post</i></b><br><br>There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand than Hitler’s rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. With <i>The Coming of the Third Reich</i>, Richard J. Evans, one of the world’s most distinguished historians, has written the definitive account for our time. A masterful synthesis of a vast body of scholarly work integrated with important new research and interpretations, Evans’s history restores drama and contingency to the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis, even as it shows how ready Germany was by the early 1930s for such a takeover to occur. <i>The Coming of the Third Reich</i> is a masterwork of the historian’s art and the book by which all others on the subject will be judged.