Writing history has one serious problem: how does an author maintain suspense when the outcome is known in advance? Timothy Ryback does this very successfully in Takeover where one can easily imagine another result in January 1933 other than Hitler becoming the German chancellor. An excellent, day-by-day account of what happened, thoroughly researched and clearly written. For me, the only thing missing was what exactly the left wing opposition parties (SPD and KPD) were doing at this time. They are very much not at the centre of this story.