Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 23, 2014 - Biography & Autobiography - 1120 pages

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian John Toland’s classic, definitive biography of Adolf Hitler remains the most thorough, readable, accessible, and, as much as possible, objective account of the life of a man whose evil affect on the world in the twentieth century will always be felt.

Toland’s research provided one of the final opportunities for a historian to conduct personal interviews with over two hundred individuals intimately associated with Hitler. At a certain distance yet still with access to many of the people who enabled and who opposed the führer and his Third Reich, Toland strove to treat this life as if Hitler lived and died a hundred years before instead of within his own memory. From childhood and obscurity to his desperate end, Adolf Hitler emerges , in Toland’s words, "far more complex and contradictory . . . obsessed by his dream of cleansing Europe Jews . . . a hybrid of Prometheus and Lucifer."

 

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Contents

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DEEP ARE THE ROOTS 18891907
THE SCHOOL OF MY LIFE December 1907May 1913
OVERCOME WITH RAPTUROUS ENTHUSIASM May 1913November 1918
BIRTH OF A PARTY 19191922
SUCH A LOGICAL AND FANATICAL MAN 19221923
THE BEER HALL PUTSCH 1923
IN LANDSBERG PRISON 19231924
CRYSTAL NIGHT November 1938March 1939
THE FOX AND THE BEAR JanuaryAugust 24 1939
A CALAMITY WITHOUT PARALLEL IN HISTORY August 24September 3 1939
VICTORY IN THE WEST September 3 1939June 25 1940
EVN VICTORS BY VICTORY ARE UNDONE JuneOctober 28 1940
A DOOR INTO A DARK UNSEEN ROOM June 22December 19 1941
THE FOURTH HORSEMAN
THE FAMILY CIRCLE 1943

HITLERS SECRET BOOK 19251928
A DEATH IN THE FAMILY 19281931
IT IS ALMOST LIKE A DREAM 1931January 30 1933
AN UNGUARDED HOUR 1933June 1934
THE SECOND REVOLUTIONALL REVOLUTIONS DEVOUR THEIR OWN CHILDREN
TRIUMPH OF THE WILL 19341935
WITH THE ASSURANCE OF A SLEEPWALKER March 1936January 1937
SUCH A LITTLE HUMAN WORM 1937February 1938
THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE FebruaryApril 1938
ON THE RAZORS EDGE MayOctober 1938
AND WITH THE BEASTS OF THE EARTH April 1943April 1944
THE ARMY BOMB PLOT November 1943July 21 1944
THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE July 21 1944January 17 1945
THIS TIME WE MUST NOT SURRENDER FIVE MINUTES BEFORE MIDNIGHT
FIVE MINUTES PAST MIDNIGHT OR THE CAPTAIN ALSO GOES DOWN WITH THIS
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
About the Author

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About the author (2014)

John Toland, the author of fifteen works of history and fiction, including Infamy: Pearl HarborII and Its Aftermath, received the Pulitzer Prize for his magisterial Rising Sun: The Decline of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945. Mr. Toland died in 2004.

Bibliographic information

TitleAdolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography
AuthorJohn Toland
Editionreprint
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014
ISBN1101872772, 9781101872772
Length1120 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / Political
History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism
  
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