Fantasy and failure; drop-out; elation and embitterment; discovering a talent; the beerhall agitator; the "drummer"; emergence of the leader; mastery over the movement; breakthrough; levered into power; the making of the dictator; securing total power; working towards to Fuhrer.
IAN KERSHAW's other books include Hitler 1936-1945- Nemesis; Making Friends with Hitler; Fateful Choices- Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-4; and The End- Hitler's Germany, 1944-45. Hitler 1936-1945- Nemesis received the Wolfson History Prize and the Bruno Kreisky Prize in Austria for Political Book of the Year, and was joint winner of the inaugural British Academy Book Prize. Until his retirement in 2008, Ian Kershaw was Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield. For services to history he was given the German award of the Federal Cross of Merit in 1994. He was knighted in 2002 and awarded the Norton Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2004. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.
Supersedes all previous accounts. It is the sort of masterly
biography that only a first-rate historian can write
*Observer Books of the Year*
The Hitler biography for the 21st century ... cool, judicious,
factually reliable and intelligently argued ... Kershaw
triumphantly succeeds in showing that Hitler's rise to supreme
power depended not just on his own talents, nor on the nature of
German society, but on the interaction of the two
*Sunday Telegraph*
One of the major historical biographies of our times ... Kershaw
has written a dazzlingly lucid interpretation of the central
dynamics of the Nazi regime which draws on a wide new range of
sources and expertly manages a huge cast of accomplices ... a
riveting read
*Financial Times, Best Biographies of the Year*
His analysis of Hitler's extraordinary character has the
fascination of a novel, but he places his struggle and rise in the
context of meticulously researched history ... Deeply disturbing.
Unforgettable
*Daily Mail*
A sane, erudite, moral and intellectually honest biography of the
20th century's most destructive politician. Every page is focused
on the historical question we would prefer to forget: how did it
happen?
*The Times*
This new biography is of profound importance and will ... quickly
establish itself as the standard work on Hitler and his regime
*Boston Globe*
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