Hitler : ascent 1889-1939 / Volker Ullrich ; translated from the German by Jefferson Chase.
"A comprehensive new biography of Hitler focusing on the dictator's personality"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385354387
- ISBN: 038535438X
- Physical Description: x, 998 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A Borzoi book"--Title page verso. "Originally published in Germany ... copyright © 2013, S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main"--Title page verso. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 759-970) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The young Hitler -- The Vienna years -- The experience of war -- The leap into politics -- The King of Munich -- Putsch and prosecution -- Landsberg Prison and Mein Kampf -- Führer on standby -- Dark star rising -- Hitler and women -- Bids and bluffs -- Month of destiny: January 1933 -- Hitler as human being -- Totalitarian revolution -- Eviscerating Versailles -- Cult and community -- Dictatorship by division, architecture of intimidation -- The Berghof Society and the Führer's mistress -- Hitler and the churches -- Prelude to genocide -- The way to war. |
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- Baker & Taylor
"A comprehensive new biography of Hitler focusing on the dictator's personality"--Provided by publisher. - Baker & Taylor
Draws on previously unseen papers and recent scholarly research to shed new light on the man behind the public personaùfrom HitlerÃs childhood and his failures as a young man in Vienna to his First World War experience and his rise as a far-right party leader. - Baker & Taylor
Draws on previously unseen papers and recent scholarly research to shed new light on Hitler's life, from his childhood and failures as a young man in Vienna to his First World War experience and rise as a far-right party leader. - Random House, Inc.
A New York Times 2016 Notable Book
A major new biographyâan extraordinary, penetrating study of the man who has become the personification of evil.
âUllrich reveals Hitler to have been an eminently practical politicianâand frighteningly so. Timely… One of the best works on Hitler and the origins of the Third Reich to appear in recent years.â
âKirkus Reviews
âAn outstanding study… All the huge, and terrible moments of the early Nazi era are dissected…but the real strength of this book is in disentangling the personal story of man and monster.â
âThe Guardian (U.K.)Â
For all the literature about Adolf Hitler there have been just four seminal biographies; this is the fifth, a landmark work that sheds important new light on Hitler himself. Drawing on previously unseen papers and a wealth of recent scholarly research, Volker Ullrich reveals the man behind the public persona, from Hitler's childhood to his failures as a young man in Vienna to his experiences during the First World War to his rise as a far-right party leader. Ullrich deftly captures Hitler's intelligence, instinctive grasp of politics, and gift for oratory as well as his megalomania, deep insecurity, and repulsive worldview.
Many previous biographies have focused on the larger social conditions that explain the rise of the Third Reich. Ullrich gives us a comprehensive portrait of a postwar Germany humiliated by defeat, wracked by political crisis, and starved by an economic depression, but his real gift is to show vividly how Hitler used his ruthlessness and political talent to shape the Nazi party and lead it to power. For decades the world has tried to grasp how Hitler was possible. By focusing on the man at the center of it all, on how he experienced his world, formed his political beliefs, and wielded power, this riveting biography brings us closer than ever to the answer.
Translated from the German by Jefferson Chase.