53 DAYS

This book captures two moments in time, one from 1993 and one from 2025, and shows us the startling parallels between them.

From the internationally acclaimed author of TAKEOVER (Knopf, 2024) and HITLER'S PRIVATE LIBRARY (Knopf, 2008), a dramatic retelling of the one month, three weeks, and two days in 1933 during which Adolf Hitler transformed the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich, with a tight, ground-level focus on the systematic dismantling of democracy that will resonate with contemporary developments in the United States and other democracies currently undergoing political transformations around the world. The story will be told from a contemporaneous perspective, looking at the events as they were experienced at the time without the customary benefit of historical hindsight.

Timothy W. Ryback is a historian and director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague. He is the author of several books on Hitler's Germany.