Table of Contents

Introduction
Prologue: A Nobody
Part One
1: Back in Munich
2: The Way to the Party
3: Hitler Takes the Lead
4: The March to the Hitler Coup
5: Process and Prohibition
Part Two
6: A Political New Beginning
7: Hitler the Speaker
8: Reorientation
9: Conquest of the Masses
10: Strategy
11: At the Gates of Power
Part Three
12: Seizure of Power
13: First Steps of Foreign Policy
14: Führer and People
15: Outbreak of the International System
16: Construction of the Sole Dictatorship
Part Four
17: Domestic Crisis
18: First Foreign Policy Successes
19: The Way to the Nuremberg Laws
20: Foreign Policy Coup
21: Ready to Serve in Four Years
22: Church Struggle and Cultural Policy
23: Hitlers Regime
Part Five
24: Foreign Policy Reorientation
25: From the Blomberg-Fritsch Crisis to the "Connection"
26: The Sudeten Crisis
27: To Munich
28: In the War
Part Six
29: The War Begins
30: Resistors
31: War in the West
32: Exploring Foreign Policy
33: Extending the War
34: Operation Barbarossa
35: Escalation of Jewish Politics
36: Winter Crisis: 1941-42
37: At the Height of Power
38: Hitler's Empire
Part Seven
39: War Change and Radicalization
40: With One's Back to the Wall
41: Before the Sinking
42: 20 July 1944
43: Refuge in Total War
44: The End

About the Author

Peter Longerich is a former Professor of Modern German History at Royal Holloway University of London, and founder of the College's Holocaust Research Centre. He has published widely on the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, including Holocaust: The Nazi Murder and Persecution of the Jews (2010) and Heinrich Himmler: A Life (2011), also published by Oxford University Press, and Goebbels (2015).

Reviews

An essential volume for anyone wanting to build up a picture of this atrocious man...
*Simon Heffer, The Daily Telegraph*

... a real biography by a genuine specialist...
*Richard J Evans, The Guardian*

... a comprehensive and impressive work. I am happy to say that Hitler: A Life is a very good book, fluently translated by Jeremy Noakes and Lesley Sharpe. It is comprehensive on the domestic side of the story, and it draws on the newer literature of the past two decades ... Longerich's work is much more than a synthesis... The result is a fine-grained and generally persuasive account of Hitler's rise to power...
*Brendan Simms, Irish Times*

Here once again [Longerich] mobilises a formidable quantity of archival material and shows us Hitler in his true colours ... [A] detailed biography.
*Richard Overy, Literary Review*

Longerich's meticulous account touches on many issues...
*Christopher Clark, London Review of Books*

... demonstrates a mastery of a vast mass of primary and secondary research ... that is remarkable even for a German professor ... Longerich is uniquely equipped to explore the enigma of a Führer who manipulated and ultimately ruined not on his lieutenants but an entire continent...
*Daniel Johnson, Standpoint*

Thorough, detailed, meticulous, readable, believable, outstanding. Not a lot of cant or opinion; just an incredible amount of detail and precise if not painstaking investigation into events that led to Adolf Hitler becoming the Adolf Hitler of undeniable, tragic nightmare.
*David Marx, David Marx Reviews *

Essential reading.
*Christopher Bray, The Tablet*

An important biography of Adolph Hitler. This text ... provides likely the most consequential history of Hitler in our time.
*CHOICE^r*