A chilling chronicle of how Adolf Hitler overturned a constitutional democracy in less than eight weeks.It took just 53 days - one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and forty minutes - from the moment Hitler became Chancellor on January 31, 1933 for him to transform the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich. And the minutes mattered.In our era of astonishing far-right political gains, historian Timothy Ryback chillingly evokes the playbook by which Germany''s first constitutional democracy was disabled then dismantled.