The Coming of the Third Reich (Book 1 of 3: The History of the Third Reich)

"Brilliant.” —Washington Post

"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

“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.” —Denver Post

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.