The third and final volume in Richard J Evans’s masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the rise and fall of German military might, against the background of the mobilization of the ‘people’s community’ in the service of a war of conquest, racial subjugation and genocide.

Interweaving a broad narrative of the war’s progress with personal testimony from a wide range of people, from generals to front-line soldiers, from Hitler Youth activists to middle-class housewives, Richard Evans lays bare the dynamics of a society plunged into war at every level. The great battles and events of the war are here, from the Battle of Stalingrad to Hitler’s suicide in the bunker, but just as important is the recreation of the daily experience of ordinary Germans in wartime, under the growing impact of the mass bombing of Germany’s towns and cities. At the centre of the book is the Nazi extermination of Europe’s Jews, set in the context of Hitler’s genocidal plans for the racial restructuring of Europe. Blending narrative, description and analysis, The Third Reich at War creates a picture of a society rushing headlong to self-destruction and taking a large part of Europe with it.

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。

陳壯，以色列巴伊蘭大學語言學在讀博士，四川外國語大學翻譯學碩士；2017年於格魯吉亞第比利斯國立大學訪學，學習格魯吉亞語；現主要從事形式語義學研究。曾參與翻譯《俄國革命史》、《禮與法：法的曆史連接》（From Rites to Law: A Historical Source of Chinese Law and Its Inheritance）等社科類讀物；現主要進行口譯工作。

趙丁，畢業於中國社會科學院研究生院世界曆史係，獲曆史學博士學位，研究方嚮為歐美近現代史。現為中國人民公安大學治安學院講師。