VOLKER ULLRICH is a historian and journalist whose previous books in German include biographies of Bismarck and Napoleon, as well as a major study of Imperial Germany, Die nervöse Grossmacht 1871-1918 (The Nervous Empire). From 1990 to 2009, Ullrich was the editor of the political book review section of the influential weekly newspaper Die Zeit. He lives in Germany.
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"The impulsiveness and grandiosity, the bullying and vulgarity,
were obvious from the beginning; if anything, they accounted for
Adolf Hitler’s anti-establishment appeal.... Ullrich argues
that the very qualities that accounted for the dictator’s
astonishing rise were also what brought about his ultimate
ruin."
—Jennifer Szalai, New York Times
"Ullrich’s work is a remarkable treatise on the malevolence of
power in modern times. Take care, lest we fall into the trap of
autocracy."
—Roger Abrams, New York Journal of Books
"Magisterial... lucidly formulated for a new generation
of readers and scholars."
—Library Journal
"An endlessly revealing look at the Nazi regime that touches on
large issues and small details alike."
—Kirkus, starred
"Meticulous... Smoothly written and splendidly translated,
Ullrich’s book gives us a Hitler we have not seen before, at once
cold-blooded and narcissistic and cloyingly sentimental. And
precisely because he seems so much like the rest of us, it is
probably the most disturbing portrait of Hitler I have ever
read."
—Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times
“The reader who plunges in is rewarded with insight, understanding,
fine judgements and read-me narrative drive... [This] biography of
Hitler makes essential reading, especially one as deeply
researched, beautifully written and finely judged as this one.”
—Tony Rennell, Daily Mail
“Ullrich’s work is much more than just a biography. It is a work of
synthesis, certainly, but a thorough and thoroughly readable one
nonetheless, which stands muster alongside Hitler’s most
significant earlier biographers: Bullock, Toland, Fest and Kershaw.
Elegantly written, engaging and insightful, it is a new standard
work on its subject.”
—Roger Moorhouse, BBC History
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