Joachim Fest
Paperback | Pages: 864 pages Rating: 4.21 | 2010 Users | 51 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Hitler. Eine Biographie |
| ISBN: | 0156027542 (ISBN13: 9780156027540) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Adolf Hitler |
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A bestseller in its original German edition and subsequently translated into more than a dozen languages, Joachim Fest's Hitler has become a classic portrait of a man, a nation, and an era. Fest tells and interprets the extraordinary story of a man's and a nation's rise from impotence to absolute power, as Germany and Hitler, from shared premises, entered into their covenant. He shows Hitler exploiting the resentments of the shaken, post-World War I social order and seeing through all that was hollow behind the appearance of power, at home and abroad. Fest reveals the singularly penetrating politician, hypnotizing Germans and outsiders alike with the scope of his projects and the theatricality of their presentation. Fest also, perhaps most importantly, brilliantly uncovers the destructive personality who aimed at and achieved devastation on an unprecedented scale.As history and as biography, this is a towering achievement, a compelling story told in a way only a German could tell it, "dispassionately, but from the inside." (Time)
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| Title | : | Hitler |
| Author | : | Joachim Fest |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 864 pages |
| Published | : | October 28th 2002 by Mariner Books (first published 1973) |
| Categories | : | History. Biography. Nonfiction. War. World War II. Cultural. Germany |
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Ratings: 4.21 From 2010 Users | 51 ReviewsWeigh Up Containing Books Hitler
Despite some errors and his reliance on Albert Speer as a source, this is still one of the indispensable biographies on Hitler.This book covers in alot of detail the early life of Hitler, an area I wasn't as familiar with.
UPDATE 10-31-17 ...Today's research for the sequel to A FLOOD OF EVIL ... In July 1939, Adolf Hitler said to Admiral Donitz: on no account must a war with Great Britain be allowed to develop .. A war with England would mean nothing less than "finis Germaniae" ... in September 1939, Germany invaded Poland, after which England (and France) declared war on Germany ... This is the way dictators end up killing 60 million people and destroying their own countries ... we must never forget that Trump
In the introduction of Volker Ullrich's Hitler: Ascent 18891939, the author describes the only four seminal biographies of Adolf Hitler.Of Fest's book he writes: The thesis that Hitler was basically a power-hungry political opportunist came in for some heavy historical revision in the following decades. Above all, historian Eberhard Jäckel convincingly demonstrated in the late 1960s that Hitler did indeed maintain a consistent world view, no matter how extreme and insane, and that this
3.5 Stars really - a comprehensive look at the life and deeds of one of the central figures of World War II. We all know about the concentration camps, the Holocaust, the forced sterilization and elimination of those considered "weak" or "feeble-minded". However, to characterize Adolf Hitler as just "evil" or "crazy" is a gross over-simplification. To justify Germany of that time accepting his leadership as somehow, being under hypnosis or trickery is also a disservice to history. The author
This book is quite daunting-- I mean, who wants to spend hours reading over 800 pages about someone as shitty as Hitler? But on the other hand, aren't you curious how an average, solitary Austrian kid became the ruler of the third Reich and a conductor of genocide? Well, I was a little curious, and my Papa left this book behind when he passed away, so I decided to ruin a number of summery days reading about Adolf Hitler. This is a remarkable biography, probably the best ever written of Hitler
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