Robert Gellately is Earl Ray Beck Professor of History at Florida State University. His publications have been translated into over twenty languages and include the widely acclaimed Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe (2007), Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 (2001), and Stalin's Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War (2013), the last two also published by Oxford University Press. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.
Robert Gellately's The Oxford Illustrated History of the Third Reich provides a splendid, authoritative, and state-of-the-art portrayal of the Third Reich. Written by an all-star team of historians, this visually stunning book is as interesting to a lay readership as it is stimulating to expert readers. * Thomas Weber, author of Becoming Hitler and Hitlers First War. * A richly illustrated and textually dense assessment of the Hitler regime... Essential for students of modern history, marked by fresh scholarship and little-seen photographs. * Kirkus, Starred Review * Uncertainty over the future of the European Union makes The Oxford Illustrated History of the Third Reich [...] required reading... [a] hard-hitting collection of essays by experts on the subject. * Andy Ffrench, Oxford Times * Written by a team of leading historians, this is a serious history of the Third Reich, but one that is richly illustrated... This is a thoughtful and well-balanced read on a complex subject. * Keith Robinson, Military History Magazine * This richly illustrated history... distills our ideas about the period and provides a balanced and accessible account of the whole era. * Eye Spy Intelligence Magazine *