The Coming of the Third Reich By Richard J. Evans, Paul Bertolli, Alice Waters, Richard Paul Evans ISBN: 9781594200045 Published: 2004 Number of Pages: 602 Edition: 1st Binding: Hardcover

Pricing & Availability: Additional Details: Product Type: Book Publisher: The Penguin Press Description: From one of the world's most distinguished historians, a magisterial new reckoning with Hitler's rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. In 1900 Germany was the most progressive and dynamic nation in Europe, the only country whose rapid technological and social growth and change challenged that of the United States. Its political culture was less authoritarian than Russia's and less anti-Semitic than France's; representative institutions were thriving, and competing political parties and elections were a central part of life. How then can we explain the fact that in little more than a generation this stable modern country would be in the hands of a violent, racist, extremist political movement that would lead it and all of Europe into utter moral, physical, and cultural ruin? There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand, and Richard Evans 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 he shows how ready Germany was by the early 1930s for such a takeover to occur. With many people angry and embittered by military defeat and economic ruin; a state undermined by a civil service, an army, and a law enforcement system deeply alienated from the democratic order introduced in 1918; beset by the growing extremism of voters prey to panic about the increasing popularity of communism; home to a tiny but quite successful Jewish community subject to widespread suspicion and resentment, Germany proved to be fertile ground in which Nazism's ideology of hatred could take root. The first book of what will ultimately be a complete three-volume history of Nazi Germany, The Coming of the Third Reich is a masterwork of the historian's art and the book by which all others on this subject will be judged.

Library of Congress Control Number
   - LC control Number:  2003063205
   - LC control Number: 2003063205

International Standard Book Number: 0143034693 (pbk.): 1594200041: 1594200041 (alk. paper): 1594200041 (hardcover : alk. paper): 1594200041 (hc.)

Geographic Area Code: e-gx---

Library of Congress Call Number
   - Classification number: DD
   - Classification number: DD 221
   - Classification number: DD221
   - Item number: .E94 2004
   - Item number: .E94 2005

Dewey Decimal Classification Number
   - Edition number: 22
   - Classification number: 943.08

Main Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Evans, Richard J
   - Personal name: Evans, Richard J.

Title Statement
   - Title: The coming of the Third Reich /
   - Remainder of title: The coming of the Third Reich /
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Richard J. Evans
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Richard J. Evans.

Edition Statement: 1st American ed: 1st American ed.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: New York :
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: New York, NY :
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: Penguin Books,
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: Penguin Press,
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: The Penguin Press,
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: 2004
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: 2004.
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: 2005, c2003.

Physical Description
   - Extent: xi, 622 p. :
   - Extent: xxxiv, 622 p. :
   - Extent: xxxiv, 622 p. [16] p. of plates :
   - Extent: xxxiv, 622 p., [16] p. of plates :
   - Extent: xxxiv, 622 p., [8] l. of plates:
   - Other physical details: ill., maps :
   - Other physical details: ill., maps ;
   - Other physical details: ill., maps, ports.;
   - Dimensions: 22 cm.
   - Dimensions: 24 cm.
   - Dimensions: 25 cm
   - Dimensions: 25 cm.
   - Dimensions: 26 cm.

General Note: Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2003: Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2003.

Bibliography, etc. Note
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-584) and index.
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [535]-584) and index
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [535]-584) and index.

Formatted Contents Note: The legacy of the past -- German peculiarities -- Gospels of hate -- The spirit of 1914 -- Descent into chaos -- The failure of democracy -- The weaknesses of Weimar -- The great inflation -- Culture wars -- The fit and the unfit -- The rise of Nazism -- Bohemian revolutionaries -- The beer-hall Purtsch -- Rebuilding the movement -- The roots of commitment -- Towards the seizure of power -- The great depression -- The crisis of democracy -- The victory of violence -- Fateful decisions -- Creating the Third Reich -- The terror begins -- Fire in the Reichstag -- Democracy destroyed -- Bringing Germany into line -- Hitler's cultural revolution -- Discordant notes -- The purge of the arts -- Against the un-German spirit -- A revolution of destruction?: The legacy of the past -- German peculiarities -- Gospels of hate -- The spirit of 1914 -- Descent into chaos -- The failure of democracy -- The weaknesses of Weimar -- The great inflation -- Culture wars -- The fit and the unfit -- The rise of Nazism -- Bohemian revolutionaries -- The beer-hall Putsch -- Rebuilding the movement -- The roots of commitment -- Towards the seizure of power -- The great depression -- The crisis of democracy -- The victory of violence -- Fateful decisions -- Creating the Third Reich -- The terror begins -- Fire in the Reichstag -- Democracy destroyed -- Bringing Germany into line -- Hitler's cultural revolution -- Discordant notes -- The purge of the arts -- Against the un-German spirit -- A revolution of destruction?

Summary, etc.: "In 1900, Germany was one of modernity's great success stories: The most progressive and dynamic nation in Europe, it was the only country whose rapid economic growth and innovation rivaled that of the United States. Its political culture was far less authoritarian than Russia's and less anti-Semitic than France's. Representative institutions thrived, and competing political parties and elections were a central part of life. How, then, could it be that in little more than a generation this stable modern country would fall into the hands of Adolf Hitler and the violent, racist, extremist political movement he led, a movement that would lead Germany and then all of Europe into utter moral, physical, and cultural ruin?" "There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand, and Richard Evans 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 he shows how ready Germany was by the early 1930s for such a takeover to occur. Its citizens were angry and embittered by military defeat and economic ruin, and its young democracy undermined by a civil service, an army, and a law enforcement system deeply alienated from the new order. The electorate was beset by growing extremism and panic about communism; and the small but successful Jewish community was subject to wide-spread suspicion and resentment. In the end, though nothing about what happened was preordained, Germany proved to be fertile ground for Nazism's ideology of hatred."--BOOK JACKET: Publisher description: From one of the world's most distinguished historians, a magisterial new reckoning with Hitler's rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. In 1900 Germany was the most progressive and dynamic nation in Europe, the only country whose rapid technological and social growth and change challenged that of the United States. Its political culture was less authoritarian than Russia's and less anti-Semitic than France's; representative institutions were thriving, and competing political parties and elections were a central part of life. How then can we explain the fact that in little more than a generation this stable modern country would be in the hands of a violent, racist, extremist political movement that would lead it and all of Europe into utter moral, physical, and cultural ruin? There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand, and Richard Evans 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 he shows how ready Germany was by the early 1930s for such a takeover to occur. With many people angry and embittered by military defeat and economic ruin; a state undermined by a civil service, an army, and a law enforcement system deeply alienated from the democratic order introduced in 1918; beset by the growing extremism of voters prey to panic about the increasing popularity of communism; home to a tiny but quite successful Jewish community subject to widespread suspicion and resentment, Germany proved to be fertile ground in which Nazism's ideology of hatred could take root. The first book of what will ultimately be a complete three-volume history of Nazi Germany, The Coming of the Third Reich is a masterwork of the historian's art and the book by which all others on this subject will be judged.

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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: National socialism
   - General subdivision: History
   - General subdivision: History.

Subject Added Entry - Geographic Name
   - Geographic name: Germany
   - General subdivision: History
   - Chronological subdivision: 1871-1918
   - Chronological subdivision: 1871-1918.
   - Chronological subdivision: 1918-1933
   - Chronological subdivision: 1918-1933.