Hitler's People - The Faces of the Third Reich

Richard J. Evans is one of the world''s leading historians of modern Germany. He was born in London in 1947. From 2008 to 2014 he was Regius Professor of History at Cambridge University, and from 2010 to 2017 President of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He served as Provost of Gresham College in the City of London from 2014 to 2020. In 1994 he was awarded the Hamburg Medal for Art and Science for cultural services to the city, and in 2015 received the British Academy Leverhulme Medal, awarded every three years for a significant contribution to the Humanities or Social Sciences. In 2000 he was the principal expert witness in the David Irving Holocaust Denial libel trial at the High Court in London, subsequently the subject of the film Denial. His books include Death in Hamburg (winner of the Wolfson History Prize), In Defence of History, The Coming of the Third Reich, The Third Reich in Power, and The Third Reich at War. His book The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914, volume 7 of the Penguin History of Europe, was published in 2016. His most recent books are Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History (2019) and The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination (2020). In 2012 he was knighted for services to scholarship.>

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Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich shows how valuable a biographical approach to the past can be. The book combines gripping individual portraits, all exhaustively researched and deftly painted Kristin Semmens History Today, Best Books of the Year 2025

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• Authors: Richard J Evans, Richard J. Evans
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.09.2025
• EAN: 9780141994437
• ISBN: 978-0-14-199443-7
• No. of pages: 624
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, Germany, Fascism & Nazism, Second World War, Far-right political ideologies and movements, 1933–1945 (National Socialist period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Biography: historical, political and military, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General