The Coming of the Third Reich

Name: The Coming of the Third Reich
Brand: Ascent Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.5 (12 reviews)
Author: Richard J. Evans
ISBN: 9781596595163

Author: Richard J. Evans

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Unabridged: 21 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 01/20/2010

Categories: Nonfiction, History, European History, Modern History, Holocaust

Synopsis

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.

About Richard J. Evans

Richard J. Evans is Regius Professor Emeritus of History at Cambridge University. Knighted in 2012 for his services to scholarship, he is the author of many prizewinning and bestselling books, including his acclaimed study of the Third Reich, whose three volumes have been translated into sixteen languages.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Riku on March 05, 2014

Many questions perplex us about the Nazis, about the atrocities they committed and about the beginnings of the Second World War. How could one of the most advanced, highly cultured, industrialized and modern nation states in Europe allow such horrors to come to pass? How could democracy be replaced......more

Goodreads review by Sebastien on October 16, 2016

I wanted to read this for a variety of reasons, but the main reason was that I wanted to get a clearer picture of how a Western democracy - 1920s Germany in this instance - could devolve into a violent terroristic regime like the Nazis. I'm worried about some of the parallels I'm seeing today, I get......more

Goodreads review by Lewis on March 26, 2015

UPDATE 3/7/14 ... Evans presents a powerful picture of the Nazi takeover before and after Hitler's appointment as Chancellor on Jan 30, 1933. However - and it is a huge however - I am finding too many examples where statements are made by Evans without any footnotes, and also omissions of "inconvenie......more

Goodreads review by Anthony on April 15, 2022

The Relentless Rise. Sir Richard J Evans writes in his opening paragraph that this book is not aimed at the expert seeking groundbreaking theory into the rise of the Third Reich. What he says is it is a book which focuses on the Nazis as a whole as they gain power in the Weimar Republic. He states he......more

Goodreads review by Wick on January 24, 2024

Normalizing political violence, ultra-nationalism and the paramilitary. This is a phenomenal and accessible historical account of the rise of the Nazi party from around the turn of the century to 1933 when the party finally took control of Germany by legal means. I found the account given to be fairl......more