Hitler (1889-1936: Hubris) - Ian Kershaw
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Hitler (1889-1936: Hubris) - Ian Kershaw

Non-Fiction - Biography - ISBN: 0141886072, 0149019297, 0393320359, 0713990473, 0140133631

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Traces Hitler's rise from a shelter for needy children in Austria to dictatorship over Germany and the beginning of his persecution of the Jews.





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society's?  Professor Ian Kershaw has produced a
work of definitive scholarship that will be the
standard for  years to come. It was badly needed;
since Alan Bullock's 1952 classic Hitler: A Study
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published in  1973) there has been much valuable
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(there  are 200 pages of notes). Add to this the
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psychological  padding, and calmly demolishes most
of the quasi-facts that have sprung up--if in
doubt, he  allows space within the chronology. His
description of the path to the Chancellorship,
which was  always more messy than messianic, is
painful to behold but gripping to follow, and
concludes in  1936 with Hitler at the height of
his "Hubris".  This is an important study of the
character of power, as clearly written as it is
intellectually engaging. --David Vincent
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20th century. He was a failed artist with
Wagnerian fantasies, a slob who could not get up 
in the morning, but he exposed the frailties of
modern civilisation in a way that should still 
make us giddy. How? Was it his doing, or German
society's? Professor Ian Kershaw has  produced a
work of definitive scholarship that will be the
standard for years to come. It was  badly needed;
since Alan Bullock's 1952 classic Hitler: A Study
in Tyranny and  Joachim Fest's Hitler (originally
published in 1973) there has been much valuable 
research, all of which Kershaw seems to have read
(there are 200 pages of notes). Add to this  the
media (and, by extension, public) fascination with
the nature of evil, and a resurgent  interest in
right-wing groups, and this book becomes long
overdue. Kershaw deals rigorously  with the bones
of his subject's life. He has no truck with
psychological padding, and calmly  demolishes most
of the quasi-facts that have sprung up--if in
doubt, he allows space within  the chronology. His
description of the path to the Chancellorship,
which was always more  messy than messianic, is
painful to behold but gripping to follow, and
concludes in 1936 with  Hitler at the height of
his "Hubris". This is an important study of the
character of power, as  clearly written as it is
intellectually engaging. --David Vincent
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gentleman, but to the rest of the world Adolf
Hitler has come to personify modern evil to such
an extent that his biographers have always faced
an unenviable task. The two most renowned
biographies of Hitler--by Joachim C Fest (Hitler)
and by Alan Bullock (Hitler: A Study in
Tyranny)--painted a picture of individual tyranny
which, in the words of AJP Taylor, left Hitler
guilty and every other German innocent. Decades of
scholarship on German society under the Nazis now
make that verdict unsafe, and so the modern
biographer of Hitler must account both for his
terrible mindset and his charismatic appeal. In
the second and final volume of his mammoth
biography of Hitler, covering the climax of Nazi
power, the reclamation of German-speaking Europe,
and the horrific unfolding of the final solution
in Poland and Russia, Ian Kershaw manages to
achieve both these tasks. Following on from
Hitler: Hubris 1889-1936 the epic Hitler: Nemesis
1936-1945 takes the reader from the adulation and
hysteria of Hitler's electoral victory in 1936 to
the obsessive and remote "bunker" mentality which
enveloped the Fuhrer as Operation Barbarossa (the
attack on Russia in 1942) proved the beginning of
the end. Chilling yet objective: a definitive
work.--Miles Taylor
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Pages: 400, Hardcover, Yale University Press
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Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and Britain's Road to War - Ian Kershaw Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and Britain's Road to War - Ian Kershaw
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Advantages: The authoritative work on Hitler.
Disadvantages: A huge book which takes time to read - and this is only the first half.

Ian Kershaw, the historian behind the BBC’s excellent series, ‘The Nazis: A Warning From History’, is also the author of what I feel is the definitive biography of Adolf Hitler. It is fascinating not just in terms of the details it unearths, but also from the point of view that Kershaw has taken a style of writing typically alien to him and made it his own. Modern ‘revisionist’ historical perspectives view history through ...
...previous historians tended to focus on individual people at the centre of importance (e.g. Hitler, Stalin or Napoleon) more modern writings examine the influences around them that shaped history. As the latter is the style adopted by Kershaw, it is surprising that he has chosen to write a biography of Hitler. As Kershaw mentions in the introduction, there is estimated to be over 120,000 works on Hitler, so why is another needed? The existence of ... Read review

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Hitler (1889-1936: Hubris) - Ian Kershaw

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Author: Ian Kershaw

Title: Hitler (1889-1936: Hubris)

Genre: Biography

Type: Non-Fiction

ISBN: 0140133631; 0141886072; 0149019297; 0393320359; 0713990473

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Traces Hitler's rise from a shelter for needy children in Austria to dictatorship over Germany and the beginning of his persecution of the Jews.

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