The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implacable march to war.

By the middle of 1933, the democracy of the Weimar Republic had been transformed into the police state of the Third Reich, mobilized around the cult of the leader, Adolf Hitler. If this could happen in less than a year, what would the future hold? Only the most fervent Nazi party loyalists would have predicted how radical the transformation ahead would be.

In The Third Reich in Power , Richard J. Evans tells the story 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. His book shows how the Nazis attempted to penetrate and 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 in the long run.

Those who were seen as unfit to be counted among the German people were dealt with in increasingly brutal terms. The Nazi regime took more and more radical measures against the racially "unfit," including Germany's Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, mentally ill, "asocial" and "habitual" criminals. 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. The war he unleashed was to plunge the world into a maelstrom of genocide and destruction. The Third Reich in Power is the fullest and most authoritative account yet written of how, in six years, Germany was brought to the edge of that terrible abyss. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

理查德·J. 埃文斯，英國曆史學傢，以19、20世紀德國史，尤其是第三帝國的研究享譽學界。曾任劍橋大學欽定曆史學講座教授、劍橋大學沃爾夫森學院院長。曾被授予漢堡藝術與科學奬，並憑學術成就獲封爵士。著有《企鵝歐洲史·競逐權力：1815—1914》《曆史與記憶中的第三帝國》等18本著作，其中《死於漢堡》獲沃爾夫森曆史奬。

哲理廬，清華大學理學學士，比利時根特大學哲學博士，有廣泛的歐美留學和研究經曆。主要研究方嚮是科學史、科學的邏輯（包括演化生物學、社會科學和概率論）、20世紀初期哲學史以及文學批評。