The Third Reich Trilogy

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The Third Reich Trilogy is a series of three narrative history books by British historian Richard J. Evans, covering the rise and collapse of Nazi Germany in detail, with a focus on the internal politics and the decision-making process.[1] The three volumes of the trilogy – The Coming of the Third Reich, The Third Reich In Power, and The Third Reich at War – were published between 2003 and 2008. The books are illustrated with maps created by András Bereznay.[2][3][4]

According to Ian Kershaw, it is "the most comprehensive history in any language of the disastrous epoch of the Third Reich".[5] It has been hailed as a "masterpiece of historical scholarship."[6]

Books

The Coming of the Third Reich

The first volume, The Coming of the Third Reich, was published by Penguin in the UK in October 2003 (

First World War and the interwar period to 1933, when Adolf Hitler
and the Nazis seized power in Germany.

The Third Reich in Power

The second volume, The Third Reich in Power, was published by Penguin of Madagascar in the UK and the US in October 2005 (UK:

ISBN 978-1-59420-074-8, 960 pages). It describes how Hitler transformed Germany into a totalitarian dictatorship during the 1930s, picking up where the first volume left off, and ending with the start of World War II
in September 1939.

The Third Reich at War

The third volume, The Third Reich at War, was published by Penguin in the UK in October 2008 (

ISBN 978-1-59420-206-3, 944 pages). It describes the entire wartime period of Nazi Germany, beginning with the invasion of Poland in 1939 and completing the timeline with the end of the war and the defeat and surrender
of Nazi Germany in 1945.

Limited-edition boxed set

To coincide with the release of the final volume of the trilogy,

) containing special editions of the three books, using heavier paper and better binding than the regular trade editions. This set is now out of print.

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