The long-awaited second volume of Volker Ullrich's acclaimed biography of the F hrer, taking us through the war years - from the early triumphs of the Blitzkrieg to Hitler's suicide in his Berlin bunker
Volker Ullrich is a historian and journalist whose previous books include biographies of Bismarck and Napoleon, as well as a major study of Imperial Germany, The Nervous Superpower 1871-1918. From 1990 to 2009, Ullrich was the editor of the 'Political Book' review section of the influential weekly newspaper, Die Zeit. On publication in Germany in 2013, Hitler- Ascent 1889-1939 became a top ten bestseller.
Smoothly written and splendidly translated, Ullrich’s book gives us
a Hitler we have not seen before, at once cold-blooded and
idealistic, chillingly 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
*Sunday Times*
Ullrich is a fine writer
*The 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
*Daily Mail, *Book of the Week**
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
*BBC History*
A fine and meticulous historian with a true command of archives and
secondary sources… Ullrich has his own angle, and that is to
recover the personality of the man… this is one of the most
impressive Hitler biographies…you will find it compelling
*Daily Telegraph*
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