BOOK RECOMMENDATION
The Third Reich in Power by Richard J. Evans.
A masterpiece by a historian at the top of his game.
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August 30th, 2006 at 7:55 pm
Evans is first-rate. I particularly enjoyed his “Lying About Hitler,” which thoroughly discredited whatever claim David Irving had to being a serious historian. These days, I pay a lot more attention to footnotes than I used to.
August 31st, 2006 at 2:20 am
hi ralph,
Ilove footnotes too (occupational hazard I suppose), vastly prefer them to endnotes; some of the most entertaining footnotes are in Solzhenitsyn’s _Gulag Archipelago_, often becoming entire anecdotes in themselves. John Lukacs is another historian who is not afraid of using meaty footnotes.
Getting back to Evans, I emjoyed his _In Defense of History_ as well.