Sir Richard John Evans, FBA, FRSL, FRHistS, FLSW (born September 29, 1947) is a British historian of modern European history. His latest book is, “The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914." Post-1918 nostalgia; Nazi contempt; return of nostalgia after 1945. [2], In the 1980s, Evans was a conspicuous figure in the Historikerstreit, a controversy surrounding the historical work and theories of German historians Ernst Nolte, Joachim Fest, Andreas Hillgruber, Michael Stürmer, Hagen Schulze, Imanuel Geiss and Klaus Hildebrand, all of whom Evans considered German apologists attempting to white-wash the German past. Richard J. Evans 472 followers He was born in London, of Welsh parentage, and is now Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Gonville & Caius College. The Coming of the Third Reich (2003) New York, NY, The Penguin Press, 2004 My latest book is “Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History”, published by Little, Brown in the UK in February 2019 and by Oxford University Press in the USA. In that book, Evans took issue with Nolte's acceptance of the Commissar Order as a legitimate military order; with Nolte's argument that the Einsatzgruppen massacres of Ukrainian Jews were a justifiable "preventive security" response to Soviet partisan attacks; his description (citing Viktor Suvorov) of Operation Barbarossa as a "preventative war" forced on Hitler by an impending Soviet attack; and his complaints that much scholarship on the Shoah expressed the views of "biased" Jewish historians. [6] For Evans, the values of the 19th-century German middle class contained the already germinating seeds of National Socialism. Evans has appeared regularly on a number of TV documentaries related to Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. Richard J. Evans was born in London and educated at Oxford University. He writes reviews of history books for the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement and The Guardian, as well as historical reflections on recent events for American magazines and websites, including Foreign Policy, The Nation, and Vox. Evans, Richard J. Evans, Richard "Introduction: Wilhelm II's Germany and the Historians" from. If he didn't get the answer he wanted, he just repeated the question. "Buzz' Evans, 77, of Tiverton, passed away on December 21, 2020, at Charlton Memorial Hospital. Evans has been co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary History since 2000, and has also served as Deputy Chair of the Spoliation Advisory Panel, a UK government non-departmental public body formed to make recommendations to the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on the restitution of cultural objects looted during the Nazi era. 1999 Honorary Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London, 2010 Founding Fellow, Learned Society of Wales (FLSW) [2], Evans first established his academic reputation with his publications on the German Empire. [24] Such was the degree of dislike that Irving challenged Evans on very minor points, such as Evans doubting the fairness of a 1938 German plebiscite in which the Nazi regime received 98.8% of the vote. Drawing on years of experience as a leading scholar of German history, Evans produced what some historians call the most extensive and comprehensive history of the rise and fall of Hitler’s regime ever produced by a single scholar. "[35], The third volume, The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster (published by Penguin in 2008), looks at major developments from 1939 to 1945, including the key battles of the Second World War, a vivid, moving and detailed account of the mass murder enacted during the Holocaust and Hitler's dramatic downfall in Berlin in 1945. His many… More about Richard J. Evans During this period he focused on building up the college as a centre of contemporary culture, with art exhibitions by Richard Deacon and Anthony Green, and talks by Martin Amis and Neil MacGregor, among many others. Richard J Evans’s new book, “The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination”, is published by Allen Lane. By Richard Overy (2001) 1. He has taught at Columbia University and Birkbeck, University of London, and since 2014 has been the Regius Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Cambridge. [21][22] Evans subsequently proved to be a powerful witness in Lipstadt's ultimately successful defence. To materials that are frustratingly meager, or overwhelmingly profuse, they bring an array of tools that range from agreed-upon rules of documentation to the critical application of social and economic theory, all employed with the aim of reconstructing a verifiable, usable past. This book examines the use of that supreme sanction in Germany, from the seventeenth century to the present. Show More. Previous holders of the title have included John Dalberg-Acton (1895), Herbert Butterfield (1963), Geoffrey Elton (1983), Patrick Collinson (1988) and Quentin Skinner (1998). More About Book Reviews Comments Reuse content Delete Comment [8] "History is about people, and their relationships. The Third Reich Trilogy is a series of three narrative history books by British historian Richard J. 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