The Oxford History of the Third Reich

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At age thirty in 1919, Adolf Hitler had no accomplishments. He was a rootless loner, a corporal in a shattered army, without money or prospects. A little more than twenty years later, in autumn 1941, he directed his dynamic forces against the Soviet Union, and in December, the Germans were at the gates of Moscow and Leningrad. At that moment, Hitler appeared DL however briefly DL to be the most powerful ruler on the planet. Given this dramatic turn of events, it is little wonder that since 1945 generations of historians keep trying to explain how it all happened.

This rich history provides a readable and fresh approach to the complex history of the Third Reich, from the coming to power of the Nazis in 1933 to the final collapse in 1945, distilling our ideas about the period and providing a balanced and accessible account of the whole era.

Author: Robert Gellately
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/26/2023
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.20w x 2.00d
ISBN13: 9780192886835
ISBN10: 0192886835
BISAC Categories:
- History | Eastern Europe | General
- History | Modern | 20th Century | Holocaust
- History | Europe | Germany

About the Author

Robert Gellately, Earl Ray Beck Professor of History, Florida State University

Robert Gellately is Earl Ray Beck Professor of History at Florida State University. His publications have been translated into over twenty languages and include the widely acclaimed Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe (2007), Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 (2001), and Stalin's Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War (2013), the last two also published by Oxford University Press. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.