The Coming of the Third Reich
Author: Evans, Richard J.
ISBN: 9780141009759
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 04 Nov 2004
Pages: 656
Format: Paperback / softback
Will appeal to fans of Ian Kershaw, Anne Applebaum and Anthony Beevor
Richard Evans' brilliant book unfolds perhaps the single most important story of the 20th century: how a stable and modern country in less than a single lifetime led Europe into moral, physical and cultural ruin and despair. A terrible story not least because there were so many other ways in which Germany's history could have been played out. With authority, skill and compassion, Evans recreates a country torn apart by overwhelming economic, political and social blows: the First World War, Versailles, hyperinflation and the Great Depression. One by one these blows ruined or pushed aside almost everything admirable about Germany, leaving the way clear for a truly horrifying ideology to take command.
ISBN: 9780141009759
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 04 Nov 2004
Pages: 656
Format: Paperback / softback
Will appeal to fans of Ian Kershaw, Anne Applebaum and Anthony Beevor
Richard Evans' brilliant book unfolds perhaps the single most important story of the 20th century: how a stable and modern country in less than a single lifetime led Europe into moral, physical and cultural ruin and despair. A terrible story not least because there were so many other ways in which Germany's history could have been played out. With authority, skill and compassion, Evans recreates a country torn apart by overwhelming economic, political and social blows: the First World War, Versailles, hyperinflation and the Great Depression. One by one these blows ruined or pushed aside almost everything admirable about Germany, leaving the way clear for a truly horrifying ideology to take command.
