Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Hitler: A Biography (One-Volume Edition)
Hitler: A Biography (One-Volume Edition)
Finally, the one-volume edition of Ian Kershaw's definitive and masterful biography of Hitler."The Hitler biography of the twenty-first century" (Richard J. Evans), Ian Kershaw's Hitler is a new, distilled, one-volume masterpiece that will become the standard work. From Hitler's origins as a failed artist in fin-de-siécle Vienna to the terrifying last days in his Berlin bunker, Kershaw's richly illustrated biography is a mesmerizing portrait of how Hitler attained, exercised, and retained power. Drawing on previously untapped sources, such as Goebbels's diaries, Kershaw addresses crucial questions about the unique nature of Nazi radicalism, about the Holocaust, and about the poisoned European world that allowed Hitler to operate so effectively. 151 photographs; 8 maps.
"As close to definitive as anything we are ever likely to see."—Jane Kramer, The New Yorker
"A superb biography."—Ian Buruma, New York Times Book Review
"Massive, extensively researched, extraordinarily balanced, and remarkably judicious."—Omer Bartov, The New Republic
"Will become the classic Hitler biography of our time."—Gordon Craig, New York Review of Books
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Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Ian Kershaw is a professor of modern history at the University of Sheffield and the author of numerous works of history, including Fateful Choices and Hitler, The Germans, and the Final Solution. He lives in Manchester, England.
Customer Reviews
A Great Biography of A Hard Subject
Successfully analyzing the events that led to the actions of the infamous Adolf Hitler in a way that is both historically correct and that does literary justice to just how monstrous, inhuman, and Machiavellian he was is quite the task to take upon oneself, and that's exactly what Ian Kershaw did. "Hitler" gives insight, and surprisingly some of it is brand new insight from previously unheard voices, into the man and the conditions that he took advantage of to gain the tyrannical power that he is so known for.
Kershaw includes all of the chilling details, and does so in such a way that you have to distance yourself from them. You have to, in a way, make parts of it far away and seemingly unreal in order to digest them, and as you read you continue until you can no longer do so and it finally hits you; until you finally have to look at the horrifying man and his iron-fisted reign.
Reviewed by Jordan Dacayanan
hitler: a biography
This excellent biography fills in gaps of history information earlier read. Painstakingly researched and detailed, voluminous enough to include full, necessary accounts of Hitler and his cohorts, this book leaves me with the realization that all I have read about the Holocaust (much) has been needful of this chronicling. Ian Kershaw has touched the contours of Naziism with careful fingers. I recommend this book.
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