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Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris
by Ian Kershaw
Hardcover (1999)

In a comprehensive treatment of Hitler's life and times up through the remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936, Kershaw draws from documents recently made available from Russian archives and benefits from a rigorous source criticism that has discredited many records formerly understood to be reliable. Hubris thus supplants Alan Bullock's classic Hitler: A Study in Tyranny as the definitive account of a man who, with characteristic smugness, indicated that it was a divinely inspired history that made him: "I go with the certainty of a sleep walker along a path laid out for me by Providence." Kershaw's penetrating analysis of how such a certain path could emerge from the dire circumstances of post World War I Germany is the abiding strength of Hubris. --James Highfill

Rise & Fall of the Third Reich - Mein Kampf

The 'Hitler Myth'
Image and Reality in the Third Reich
by Ian Kershaw
Paperback (1989)

Before writing the first volume of his substantial biography of Adolf Hitler, Ian Kershaw focused on the popular appeal of the Nazi dictator in The "Hitler Myth". Arguing that "the sources of Hitler's appeal must be sought ... in those who adored him, rather than in the leader himself," Kershaw shows how Hitler's public image welded together antagonistic forces within the Nazi state, mobilized the nation for war, and contributed to the ethos that animated systematic and genocidal violence.

Hitler: A Study in Tyranny
by Alan Bullock
Hardcover (1999)

Paperback (1994)

Bullock describes with chilling specificity how through adroit manipulation of popular discontent, the control of information, and the politics of terror, a madman and a monster inspired Germany to perpetrate the defining horror of this century. This is the basic book that the "WWII" industry has standardized in the field. It provides a great deal of factual information, moving beyond esoteric analyses of Hitler, to examine the War as well. Although Bullock seems "anti-Nazi" it was one of the most unbiased books on this "dark" topic. A nice part of the book is the detail that Bullock gets into with regard to Germany's pre-WWII Treaties.

Hitler
by Joachim Fest, Richard Winston
Paperback (1992)

A bestseller in its original German edition and subsequently translated into more than a dozen language, Joachim Fest's Hitler is acclaimed as "the best single volume available on the tortuous life and savage reign of Adolf Hitler" (Time). Ranks as a companion volume to Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and Albert Speer's memoir Inside the Third Reich. Still the best bio of Hitler. If the amateur historian has time for only one biography of Adolph Hitler, this is the one to get.

The Last Days of Hitler
by Hugh Trevor-Roper
Paperback (1992)

Trevor-Roper's intimate memoir opens the door to Hitler. This book looks at the various personalities of people within the Third Reich, such as Adolf Hitler himself, Heinrich Himmler and Albert Speer. The second half is an intimate account of the last ten days of Hitler, beginning with his fifty-sixth birthday in an underground bunker below the ruins of the Reich Chancellery. Here we see the Fuehrer's birthday reception, his rejection of Goering and Himmler, his last testament, his marriage to Eva Braun, and his suicide and cremation. The book is a terrific source for anyone who wants insight into the fall of the Third Reich, which survived the death of its founder by just one week. This refers to the original edition of H. R. Trevor-Roper's "The Last Days of Hitler," published by Macmillan in 1947. Read it and above all, enjoy it!

Hitler: The Missing Years
by Ernst Hanfstaengl (1992)

Paperback Hardcover

Adolf Hitler
by John Toland
Paperback (1992)

Booknews, Inc. , December 1, 1992
Toland's massive and masterful biography was originally published (hardcover) by Doubleday in 1976. Deeply researched, thoroughly documented, compelling reading for a general audience. Includes many photographs. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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