The Coming of the Third Reich

"The clearest and most gripping account I've read of German life before and during the rise of the Nazis." A. S Byatt, Times Literary Supplement

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 The Coming of the Third Reich, 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. The Coming of the Third Reich is a masterwork of the historian s art and the book by which all others on the subject will be judged.