Will I love The Coming of the Third Reich?

There is no better scholarly work about the birth and death of Germany’s first democracy than The Coming of the Third Reich, by British historian Richard J. Evans. Evans uses a wealth of archival material to create a masterful narrative of the intrigue, revolts, economic forces, and political chaos that marked the Weimar era. The Coming Of The Third Reich is the first book in a three-volume series, which covers Germany from the end of World War I to the downfall of the Nazi regime.

Evans is the world’s foremost scholar on Nazism, a really difficult title to earn given the strong competition in a very crowded field. In this book, he reviews the 1920s and early 1930s in Germany, and how a toxic mix of revanchism, militarism, and German supremacism combined to create not just a Fascist state, but the most radical of several European Fascist states and one that was dead-set on revenge against the democratic powers and the Soviet Union that Nazis blamed for internal unrest that brought down the German Reich in 1914-18.