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Richard J. Evans Reviews Thomas Childers's "The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany"

Richard J. Evans, author of a ridiculous number of books about German history, reviews Thomas Childers's The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany.

An Excerpt From Timothy Snyder's "Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning"

Here's an excerpt from Timothy Snyder's forthcoming book Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning.

If you haven't already read Professor Snyder's book Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, then I highly recommend it.

David Blackbourn Reviews Jonathan Steinberg's "Bismarck: A Life"

David Blackbourn, author of The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany, reviews Jonathan Steinberg's Bismarck: A Life.

Paul Hockenos Reviews "Germany's Genocide of the Herero" and "The Kaiser's Holocaust"

Paul Hockenos reviews Jeremy Sarkin's Germany's Genocide of the Herero: Kaiser Wilhelm II, His General, His Settlers, His Soldiers and David Olusoga and Casper W. Erichsen's The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism.

If you don't have time for book-length treatments of this topic, then you might consider looking at chapter 33 of Thomas Pakenham's The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912. Judging, though, from the audio excerpts read by Mr. Olusoga, you'll find much more about German racial attitudes in these new works.

Janet Maslin Reviews Erik Larson's "In the Garden of Beasts"

Janet Maslin reviews Erik Larson's In the Garden of Beasts.

Advertisements for Myself - #10

From time to time over the past few years I've mentioned that Yolanda Estes and I have been working on a book about the German philosopher J.G. Fichte. It's been a long haul, but it now looks as if J. G. Fichte and the Atheism Dispute (1798-1800) will be published in March 2010. Our book is a collection of translations and commentary devoted (as the title plainly indicates) to Fichte and the atheism dispute, a pivotal event not only in Fichte's philosophical career but also in the history of German idealism as a whole.

The complete manuscript is at the press, and so right now Yolanda and I are working through the production process. This page on the Ashgate website will give you more information about the book and its contents.

Anthony Grafton Reviews Timothy Ryback's "Hitler's Private Library"

Anthony Grafton reviews Timothy Ryback's Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life.

Nicholas Stargardt Reviews Richard Evans's "The Third Reich at War"

Nicholas Stargardt reviews Richard Evans's The Third Reich at War.

That Deadbeat Schiller

A German license-collecting agency recently informed Friedrich Schiller, the famous poet, dramatist, and philosopher, that he needed to pay his TV license. Since Herr Schiller died in 1805, I figure that it's highly unlikely that he will be able to comply with this otherwise reasonable request.

James Sheehan Reviews Mark Mazower's "Hitler's Empire"

James Sheehan reviews Mark Mazower's Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe.