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The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster (Allen Lane History) (Hardcover)

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  • Hardcover: 912 pages
  • Publisher: Allen Lane (2 Oct 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0713997427
  • ISBN-13: 978-0713997422
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.4 x 6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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'With this third volume, Richard Evans has accomplished a masterpiece of historical scholarship ... [he] has produced the best and most up-to-date synthesis of the huge work carried out on the subject over the past decades.' --Anthony Beevor, Times

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'The narrative is written with the same masterly historical flair and eye for telling detail that marked the first two volumes. This will surely be the standard history for many years to come.'

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant combination of detail and abstraction, 2 Nov 2008
By Dominic Berlemann "luhdieu72" (Outpost of Progress) - See all my reviews
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With this third volume, Professor Evans brings his rightfully acclaimed "History of the Third Reich" to a very fruitful end indeed. All the major developments from 1939 till 1945 are at least touched upon in a very insightful and balanced manner, blending social history, the biographies of well-known heavyweights of the Nazi regime such as Hitler, Göring, Goebbels, Himmler or Speer and the lesser known experiences of ordinary Germans into one complex but highly readable narrative, exposing a good deal of the inner workings of Hitler's dictatorship rather than taking an overly abstract bird's eye view on this disastrous epoch.

Abstaining from any form of moralising, which is unnecessary anyway in the face of the well-known enormity of the crimes committed, there is, of course, a heavy emphasis on the horrifying genocidal activities of the Nazis and the political arena, yet economic, cultural and military events are also accounted for in a convincing way. Most of the major controversies concerning the historiography of Nazi Germany like Daniel Goldhagen's "Hitler's Willing Executioners" are mentioned, although Evans does not always take up a clear position and understandably refrains from making any new untested hypotheses, for which a book of this scope cannot be intended anyway.

For students of modern history the book offers a remarkably well-crafted starting-point to develop their own research interests, providing also a detailed bibliography of the major works on the Nazi era. The only real downside perhaps, along with a certain tendency towards oversimplifying complex military events, is an apparent lack of explicit theoretical reflection on his own position within the field of historical research on the part of Evans, like his rejection of the Great man theory of history, which is responsible for his concentration on social history. As a consequence, lay readers not familiar with the major currents in historical research may not be able to fully comprehend and appreciate Evans' findings. Reading the preface to the first volume, in which Evans explains his methodology in greater detail, is therefore strongly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A superb finish!, 10 Oct 2008
By Castaway "seaminor" (Isle of Wight) - See all my reviews
Like the previous reviewer I waited for this third instalment with impatience. I was not disappointed, impassioned writing tempered by impeccable scholarship and judicious use of the vast sources on the subject. I can do no better than refer prospective readers to the excellent and substantial review by Nicholas Stargardt in the Times Literary Supplement of 10 October 2008 (pages 8-9).

As for me, I was glad to see the author has been able to incorporate references to recent works by other scholars. For instance, Evans cites extensively the highly praised and enormously informative book by Adam Tooze "The Wages of Destruction" (2006) on the economic history of the Third Reich. However, Evans does not always agree with that author and when it comes to what, palpably, went on at the infamous Wannsee Conference I am emphatically with him (see page 265) in holding that the major purpose of that meeting was to "discuss the logistics of extermination".

A brilliant and essential book, and page-turningly readable too. In particular the interspersion of contemporary everyday diary entries (like those of schoolteacher Luise Solmitz) illuminates and adds greatly to our feeling of actually being inside the Reich during the war years.

Of wide-scope studies in English of Hitler's ghastly regime there are now, I think, three which stand out amongst the dauntingly large number of works of special value and interest for the general reader: Ian Kershaw's masterly two-volume biography of Hitler; Richard J. Evans's now completed three volumes, and, lastly (and surprisingly in view of the usual reputation of economic history as off-puttingly `heavy') Adam Tooze's brilliant and clearly written in-depth analysis of the fatal flaws underlying the Nazi drive to war.

Insofar as there can ever be a definitive, overarching summation of the Third Reich, it seems to me that these three authors come nearest to supplying it!

[Postscript: Michael Burleigh's 'The Third Reich: A New History' (Macmillan, 2000) is also very highly recommendable though its emphasis on Nazism as a political religion is not universally accepted among professional colleagues. Nevertheless it remains, in my view, a powerfully persuasive interpretation.]
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars magnificent!, 10 Feb 2009
By E. John Danby (Rome Italy) - See all my reviews
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I ordered this book because of the fine review in The London Review of Books. And because I have long been puzzled by the success of the Nazi regime in a country which I have visited a number of times and always felt at home. (Despite being a Protestant Scots-Canadian)
It was a long read and mostly heart-breaking as much for the horrors described as for the author's controlled compassion in describing them. To say nothing of his meticulous scholarship!
Enjoyable hardly seems the appropriate word to describe the experience of reading this work but worthy it certainly was! So much so that I have ordered the previous volume of his trilogy and greatly look forward to an almost life-changing pleasure of reading it.
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