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Book Synopsis''Brilliant, a 5 out of 5 masterpiece'' Evening Standard
The renowned historian of the Third Reich takes on the conspiracy theories surrounding Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, in a vital history book for the ''post-truth'' age
The idea that nothing happens by chance in history, that nothing is quite what it seems to be at first sight, that everything that occurs is the result of the secret machinations of malign groups of people manipulating everything from behind the scenes is as old as history itself. But conspiracy theories are becoming more popular and more widespread in the twenty-first century. Nowhere have they become more obvious than in revisionist accounts of the history of the Third Reich. Long-discredited conspiracy theories have taken on a new lease of life, given credence by claims of freshly discovered evidence and novel angles of investigation.
This book takes five widely discussed claims involving Hitler and the Nazis an
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A wonderful book that's both hard to put down and brilliantly insightful in its analysis of the ways in which conspiracy theories and so-called "alternative facts" are constructed and justified - and why they're such nonsense... Evans performs his task with such withering and entertaining wit that it's worth putting up with the nonsense to enjoy the brilliant demolition... It's a 5 out of 5 masterpiece. -- Martin Bentham * Evening Standard *
There can be no more authoritative guide to these conspiracy theories than Evans ... It is becoming a deadly serious matter. -- Tony Barber * Financial Times *
Brilliant ... Deploying him against conspiracy theorists is a bit like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. -- Simon Griffiths * Mail on Sunday *
