# The Coming of the Third Reich

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- Book: [The Coming of the Third Reich](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-evans/the-coming-of-the-third-reich) ([The Coming of the Third Reich.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-evans/the-coming-of-the-third-reich.md))
- Authors: [Richard J. Evans](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-evans)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4100-975-9
- Pages: 656
- Published: 2004-08-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Richard Evans' brilliant book unfolds perhaps the single most important story of the 20th century: how a stable and modern country in less than a single lifetime led Europe into moral, physical and cultural ruin and despair. A terrible story not least because there were so many other ways in which Germany's history could have been played out. With authority, skill and compassion, Evans recreates a country torn apart by overwhelming economic, political and social blows: the First World War, Versailles, hyperinflation and the Great Depression. One by one these blows ruined or pushed aside almost everything admirable about Germany, leaving the way clear for a truly horrifying ideology to take command.