This second edition has been extensively revised and expanded and includes new chapters on the Nazi regime, the SS and Gestapo, and the Second World War. Expanded background narratives provide a solid understanding of the period and the analyses and sources have been updated throughout to help students engage with recent historiography and form their own interpretation of events.
Stephen J. Lee is the former Head of History at Bromsgrove School. He has published over twenty books, including European Dictatorships (3rd edition, 2008) and, in this series, The Weimar Republic (2nd edition, 2009) and Imperial Germany, 1871- 1918 (1998).