Brilliant. Washington Post The clearest and most gripping account Ive 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 areassocial and culturaland 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 twentiethcentury history more important to understand than Hitlers rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. With The Coming of the Third Reich Richard Evans one of the worlds 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 Evanss 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 historians art and the book by which all others on the subject will be judged. show more