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Title: The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh ISBN: 0-8090-9326-X Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.03 (35 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A MASTERFUL CONTRIBUTION
Comment: Some previous reviewers have complained about the complex style and writing of this book. Although in fact it is not an easily readable book, for the general public, if you have a serious interest about the history of the third Reich, make no mistake: you will not be able to overlook this book, which will surely be a classic. It is a thoroughly well researched contribution about the connection between religious beliefs and mass fanaticism; the interaction between the "new" domestic and international values, based on aggression; and the other causes involved in the rise (and fall) of the III Reich. From a different perspective from other mainstream historians, this winner of the Samuel Johnson prize for non fiction, has accomplished quite an original scholarly feat, one which will enlighten the comprehension of this particular period of history. No wonder many international critics have found the subtitle of this opus -A new History- particularly well deserved. Of great interest is the chapter related with the demise of the rule of law, a thorough analysis of the penetration of the judiciary and the subordination of the police and government to the totalitarian Fuhrerprinzip.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Reich Revisited
Comment: This book breaks from the thousands of other books on the Third Reich, which focus on the cult of personality surrounding Hitler and the other Nazi leaders and analyzes the full impact of National Socialism on the people, those in Germany, the Jews, the conquered collaborationists, the trail of death produced by the Nazi juggernaut. It illustrates the formulative years leading up to WWII... the rise of lawlessness during the Weimer republic and Hitler's seizure of power, the dehumanization of people and the acceptance of euthanasia to get rid of undesirables, the Nazi invasions and occupation as seen by the occupied. It is well written and well organized. It presents a new window into the Third Reich that few historians have captured with such depth. Burleigh breaks with those historians like Carroll Quigley that refuse to denote the German dictatorship as totalitarian and recognizes that Nazism, tried to create a polis that truly blurred the lines between public and private, subordinating all aspects of life to the Nazi ideology.
I also recommend Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot by Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihin and the Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek. These books give an excellent insight into the roots of national socialism and fascism, which was a close cousin of the French Revolution, Jacobinism, and the followers of Mazzini in Italy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Extremely well-written
Comment: I won't say much about this monumental work of scholarship.
I must, though, throughly disagree with some of the comments below that it is somehow inaccessible to to the general reader. My copy is covered with marks, notations, and underlinings of what I thought on first reading was absolutely wonderful prose. Most notably, and surprising given the topic, Burleigh pulls off the amazing task of using humor to illustrate some of his most serious points. First rate scholarship and superb writing.
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Title: Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris by Ian Kershaw ISBN: 0393046710 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Inside Nazi Germany: Conformity, Opposition, and Racism in Everyday Life by Detlev J.K. Peukert ISBN: 0300044801 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1989 List Price(USD): $19.50 |
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Title: Hitler: 1936-1945: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw ISBN: 0393322521 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning ISBN: 0060995068 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans ISBN: 1594200041 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 05 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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