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Hitler
- 240 pages · about 4 hours
- First published 1991
- 11 editions
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1 About this book
Hailed as the most compelling biography of the German dictator yet written, Ian Kershaw's Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the heart of its subject's immense darkness.
From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Reich chancellery in Berlin, Adolf Hitler left a murky trail, strewn with contradictory tales and overgrown with self-created myths. One truth prevails: the sheer scale of the evils that he unleashed on the world has made him a symbol, like Stalin and Mao, of the unparalleled barbarism of the 20th century.
Good for readers who want: politics, a true life story, and history.
- Politics and government
- Biography
- History
- History Germany
- Germany, biography
- Heads of state
- National socialism
- World War II
2 About Ian Kershaw
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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