Richard J. Evans

Evans authored a three-volume history of the Third Reich: *The Coming of the Third Reich* (2003), *The Third Reich in Power* (2005), and *The Third Reich at War* (2008), all published by Penguin. The trilogy covers the period from the Weimar Republic's collapse through Germany's defeat in 1945 and is widely assigned in university courses.

Evans served as the principal expert witness for the defense in the 2000 libel trial Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt, in which Holocaust denier David Irving sued for being called a denier. Evans spent two years examining Irving's work and testified that Irving deliberately manipulated and falsified historical evidence, contributing to the judge's ruling against Irving.

*In Defence of History* (1997) is Evans's methodological argument against postmodernist claims that objective historical knowledge is impossible, while also acknowledging genuine limitations in historical epistemology. He engages directly with thinkers like Hayden White and Keith Jenkins while defending the discipline's core empirical methods.

Yes, Evans was Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge from 2008 until his retirement in 2014, having previously taught at the University of East Anglia and Birkbeck, University of London. He is a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.