Name: They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45 (en Inglés)
Price: 19.55 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Richard J. Evans
ISBN: 9780226525839

portada They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45 (en Inglés)

They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45 (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Milton Mayer

Epílogo de

Richard J. Evans

Editorial

University of Chicago Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

384

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.3 x 14.0 x 2.5 cm

Peso

0.47 kg.

ISBN13

9780226525839

Categorías

Alemania
C. 1939-c. 1945 (época de la segunda guerra mundial)
Ideologías y movimientos políticos de extrema derecha
Historia de europa
Segunda guerra mundial

They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45 (en Inglés)

Milton Mayer (Autor) · Richard J. Evans (Epílogo de) · University of Chicago Press · Tapa Blanda

Libro Nuevo Origen: Estados Unidos

Envío Rápido

$ 23.00$ 19.55

-15%

Libro Nuevo

Quedan más de 100 unidades

$ 19.55

Llega entre el 18 Jun y el 25 Jun a FL. Seleccionar ubicación

Agregar a lista de deseos

Reseña del libro "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45 (en Inglés)"

"When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench at Nuremberg." That's Milton Mayer, writing in a foreword to the 1966 edition of They Thought They Were Free. He's right about the critics: the book was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1956. General readers may have been slower to take notice, but over time they did--what we've seen over decades is that any time people, across the political spectrum, start to feel that freedom is threatened, the book experiences a ripple of word-of-mouth interest. And that interest has never been more prominent or potent than what we've seen in the past year. They Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany. Mayer's book is a study of ten Germans and their lives from 1933-45, based on interviews he conducted after the war when he lived in Germany. Mayer had a position as a research professor at the University of Frankfurt and lived in a nearby small Hessian town which he disguised with the name "Kronenberg." "These ten men were not men of distinction," Mayer noted, but they had been members of the Nazi Party; Mayer wanted to discover what had made them Nazis. His discussions with them of Nazism, the rise of the Reich, and mass complicity with evil became the backbone of this book, an indictment of the ordinary German that is all the more powerful for its refusal to let the rest of us pretend that our moment, our society, our country are fundamentally immune. A new foreword to this edition by eminent historian of the Reich Richard J. Evans puts the book in historical and contemporary context. We live in an age of fervid politics and hyperbolic rhetoric. They Thought They Were Free cuts through that, revealing instead the slow, quiet accretions of change, complicity, and abdication of moral authority that quietly mark the rise of evil.

Richard J. Evans

(Epílogo de)

Ver Página del Autor

Sir Richard J. Evans (nacido el 29 de septiembre de 1947 en Woodford, Londres) es un historiador británico especializado en la historia de Alemania en los siglos XIX y XX. Fue profesor de Historia en el Birkbeck College de la Universidad de Londres (1989-1998) y, posteriormente, catedrático de Historia Moderna en la Universidad de Cambridge (1998-2014). En 2012, fue nombrado caballero por sus contribuciones a la investigación histórica.

Entre sus obras más destacadas se encuentra la trilogía sobre el Tercer Reich: "La llegada del Tercer Reich" (2005), "El Tercer Reich en el poder" (2007) y "El Tercer Reich en guerra" (2011). Además, ha publicado "La lucha por el poder: Europa 1815-1914" (2017) y "Hitler y las teorías de la conspiración: El Tercer Reich y la imaginación paranoide" (2021). Estas obras, enmarcadas en el género de la historia política, ofrecen un análisis profundo de la Alemania nazi y la Europa moderna.

Ver menos