Books by Benjamin Carter Hett and Complete Book Reviews

Burning the Reichstag: An Investigation into the Third Reich’s Enduring Mystery
Burning the Reichstag: An Investigation into the Third Reich’s Enduring Mystery
Benjamin Carter Hett. Oxford Univ., $29.95 (416 p) ISBN 978-0-19-932232-9
Historian Hett (Crossing Hitler) applies his dual expertise as a scholar and former trial lawyer to reopen discussion of an aspect of Nazi Germany widely considered settled: who set the Reichstag on fire in 1933? The research of such historians as...
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The Death of Democracy
The Death of Democracy
Benjamin Carter Hett. Holt, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-16250-2
Hett, an associate professor of history at Hunter College and CUNY, persuasively challenges familiar arguments that the rise of Nazi Germany was an inevitable consequence of abstract forces like racism, militarism, and capitalism. Hitler’s...
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The Nazi Menace: Hitler
The Nazi Menace: Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War
Benjamin Carter Hett. Holt, $29.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-20523-0
In this crisp and well-researched account, Hunter College history professor Hett (The Death of Democracy) portrays the lead-up to WWII as a “crisis in democracy” during which Allied leaders struggled to articulate an “open and international” world...
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