Evans, Richard J.

The coming of the Third Reich by Richard J Evans ( Book )
30 editions published between 2003 and 2010 in 4 languages and held by 2,405 libraries worldwide
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.

The Third Reich in power, 1933-1939 by Richard J Evans ( Book )
18 editions published between 2005 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 1,854 libraries worldwide
In this book, historian Evans tells of Germany's radical reshaping under Nazi rule. Every area of life, from literature, culture, and the arts to religion, education, and science, was subordinated to the relentless drive to prepare Germany for war. Evans shows how the Nazis attempted to reorder every aspect of German society, encountering many kinds and degrees of resistance along the way but gradually winning the acceptance of the German people. Those who were seen as unfit, including Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, mentally ill, "asocial" and "habitual" criminals, were dealt with in increasingly brutal terms. After six years of foreign policy brinkmanship that took the Nazi regime from success to success, Hitler's drive to prepare Germany for the war he saw as its destiny reached its fateful hour in September 1939.--From publisher description.

Lying about Hitler : history, Holocaust, and the David Irving trial by Richard J Evans ( Book )
10 editions published between 2001 and 2002 in English and held by 1,598 libraries worldwide
The author examines the libel suit and ensuing trial of Penguin Books UK and Deborah Lipstadt against holocaust denier David Irving. The author uses the trial to explore the question of Nazi genocide against the Jews and the roles of Hitler, Himmler and Goebbels in the Holocaust.

The Third Reich at war by Richard J Evans ( Book )
8 editions published between 2008 and 2010 in English and held by 1,595 libraries worldwide
The final volume in Evans's masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the rise and fall of German military might, the mobilization of a people's community to serve a war of conquest, and Hitler's campaign of racial subjugation and genocide.

In Hitler's shadow : West German historians and the attempt to escape from the Nazi past by Richard J Evans ( Book )
23 editions published between 1989 and 1991 in 3 languages and held by 976 libraries worldwide

In defense of history by Richard J Evans ( Book )
8 editions published between 1999 and 2000 in English and held by 920 libraries worldwide
"In his compact, spirited survey, Richard J. Evans shows us how historians manage to extract meaning from the recalcitrant past. To materials that are frustratingly meager, or overwhelmingly profuse, they bring an array of tools that range from agreed-upon rules of documentation and powerful computer models to the skilled investigator's sudden insight, all employed with the aim of reconstructing a verifiable, usable past."--BOOK JACKET.

The feminists : women's emancipation movements in Europe, America, and Australasia, 1840-1920 by Richard J Evans ( Book )
12 editions published between 1977 and 1985 in English and held by 882 libraries worldwide

The feminist movement in Germany, 1894-1933 by Richard J Evans ( Book )
12 editions published between 1976 and 1997 in English and held by 668 libraries worldwide

Society and politics in Wilhelmine Germany ( Book )
8 editions published between 1971 and 1988 in English and Japanese and held by 632 libraries worldwide

Death in Hamburg : society and politics in the cholera years, 1830-1910 by Richard J Evans ( Book )
11 editions published between 1987 and 1991 in English and German and held by 595 libraries worldwide