Laqueur, Walter.Fascism: Past, Present, Future. Oxford University Press, 1997. A wide-ranging study of the many faces of fascism by one of America's foremost historians.
Lee, Martin A.The Beast Reawakens. Little, Brown, 1997. Chronicles 50 years of neo-Nazism, from its beginnings in post-World War II Germany through the fall of the Berlin wall and the emergence of skinhead groups in Germany and the United States.
Paxton, Robert O.The Anatomy of Fascism. Knopf, 2004. Examination of why fascism took hold in Germany and Italy but failed elsewhere.
Payne, Stanley G.A History of Fascism, 1914-1945. University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. Fascism in Italy, Germany, Spain, Romania, and Japan, as well as movements in other countries.
Davidson, Eugene.The Unmaking of Adolf Hitler. University of Missouri Press, 1996. A survey of Hitler's time in office, from 1933 to 1945.
Fischer, Klaus P.Nazi Germany: A New History. Continuum, 1995. A solid single-volume history of Nazi Germany that incorporates recent scholarship.
Gutman, Israel, ed.Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. Macmillan, 1990. The Nazi persecution of the Jews and others. Includes suggestions for further reading.
Hitler, Adolf.Trans. Ralph Manhei.Mein Kampf. Reprint, Houghton Mifflin, 1999. First published in German in two volumes in 1925 and 1927, this work became the bible of National Socialism.