Robert Gellately is the Earl Ray Beck Professor of History at Florida State University and recently was the Bertelsmann Visiting Professor of Twentieth Century Jewish Politics and History at Oxford University. He is the author of The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy, 1933--1945 and Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.
Approachable... The book is strong in highlighting the almost unbelieveable terror and utterly ruthless assault on humanity in both regimes -- Ian Kershaw * BBC History Magazine * Gellately sets a high standard... Lucid prose and vivid examples make the book admirably accessible to non-specialists... it also engages expertly in one of hte most closely fought historiographical battles of past decades, the Historikerstreit * The Economist * A book that is both sensible and sophisticated, scholarly and very readable -- Simon Sebag Montefiore