Hitler
A Biography
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Narrated by:
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Damian Lynch
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Ian Kershaw
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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 demonic figure without equal in the 20th century.
Ian Kershaw's Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the character of the bizarre misfit in his 30-year ascent from a Viennese shelter for the indigent to uncontested rule over the German nation that had tried and rejected democracy in the crippling aftermath of World War I. With extraordinary vividness, Kershaw recreates the settings that made Hitler's rise possible: the virulent anti-Semitism of prewar Vienna, the crucible of a war with immense casualties, the toxic nationalism that gripped Bavaria in the 1920s, the undermining of the Weimar Republic by extremists of the Right and the Left and the hysteria that accompanied Hitler's seizure of power in 1933 and then mounted in brutal attacks by his storm troopers on Jews and others condemned as enemies of the Aryan race.
In an account drawing on many previously untapped sources, Hitler metamorphoses from an obscure fantasist, a "drummer" sounding an insistent beat of hatred in Munich beer halls, to the instigator of an infamous failed putsch and, ultimately, to the leadership of a ragtag alliance of right-wing parties fused into a movement that enthralled the German people.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-05-17
He dies at the end.
Very detailed biography of Hiter and explores the interactions and behaviours of the people around him and how these factored into the disaster and horror of the war
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- YaggaMcc
- 14-01-20
Hitler
certainly informative, but, perhaps too long?
an element of 'a challenge' to get it finished.
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- C J Stout
- 06-08-19
A great book.
Fascinating insight into the mind of a monster. The Final Solution description is harrowing but gives a narrative and picture of how abominable these actions were and how they developed.
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- Dr. John Grierson
- 22-07-21
Could it happen again?
Having thought I knew as much as I needed to know about Hitler I discovered that Ian Kershaw had a great deal more to teach me. This is a tour de force, very well read and essential for those who forget that Hitler wannabes like Trump are ever-present and need to be watched and stopped
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- Prime member.
- 22-03-20
Fascinating Listening.
Very interesting and scary.
I don`t care what some say. He was mad, totally.
How he got away with it is beyond belief.
If history tells us anything, we need to watch out for these despots.
There have been a few, I`m sure there will be many more.
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- J. Leigh
- 06-05-21
Very good
Very good biography of Hitler, but at times I could have done with wider historical perspective and a bit more context to explain why the German population supported Hitler and the National Socialist party.
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- Giantslayer
- 30-04-21
insightful, accessible and well read.
insightful, comprehensive but accessible. This slightly abridged version of Kershaw's two volume book is excellent. A dark, chilling account of the dictator and an interesting examination of how the country fell under his spell. Excellent and engaging narration too.
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- Fran w
- 21-05-20
Serious reading but well worth it.
This book give an insight into what was happening in parallel with our knowledge of the war years. It was also quite fascinating to understand how a lowly little man managed to rise to be the furer of Germany.
The book is well written. Is very interesting and Well researched. It is a Long read as you would expect. The chapters are mostly over an hour Long but well worth it.
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- Kendo nagassaki
- 11-08-21
superb analysis
excellent critical analysis of a very complex character..a genius.. who handed Europe to an even more evil character..stalin
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- superjohnmcginlay
- 28-02-17
Powerful and interesting
Incredible: especially as reading coincided with rise of next Hitler. We must learn from what happened in Germany or Kershaw's equivalent in a century will be writing about a maniac who killed millions with a promise to make his country great again.
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