The Coming of the Third Reich

<b>Brilliant.&#148;&#160;&#151;<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. &#151;A. S Byatt&#160;<i>Times Literary Supplement</i></b><br><br>&#147;The generalist reader it should be emphasized is well served. . . . The book reads briskly covers all important areas&#151;social and cultural&#151;and succeeds in its aim of giving &#147;voice to the people who lived through the years with which it deals.&#148; &#151;<b><i>Denver Post</i></b><br></b><br>There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand than Hitler&#146;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&#146;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&#146;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&#146;s art and the book by which all others on the subject will be judged.