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Title: Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris by Ian Kershaw ISBN: 0-393-04671-0 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.59 (51 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An authoritative examination
Comment: Ian Kershaw's book is simply exceptional in every way. His grasp of the primary and secondary sources on Hitler and Germany is astonishing. Despite what might appear to be a weighty tome, with thousands of footnotes, Kershaw has organized his material and presented it in elegant prose that drives the Hitler story along at a brisk pace--and draws the reader along too.
Perhaps more impressive than Kershaw's research and writing, is his analysis. The reader will come away from this book with, at this point in time, the most cogent, insightful interpretation one can find of how Hitler came to power. Kershaw brilliantly lays out how Hitler's "belief" system was formed, where it fit into the Germany of Hitler's time, and how Hitler was able to match his talents as a propagandist and mesmerizing speaker to the "needs" of the German people. Kershaw does not accept simplistic explanations about Hitler's rise to power--there was nothing inevitable about it, it was not the "nature" of the German people that produced Hitler, etc. Instead, Kershaw presents a sober, balanced account that clearly lays out in detail the political, economic, and social situation in Germany, the times, and the man--and his luck--all of which led, as he notes in his final setence, Germany into the abyss.
This book does not attempt to sensationalize Hitler. Rather it is an extraordinary piece of scholarship, analysis, and writing--this is the one book about Hitler and Germany that should be read. I look forward with great anticipation to a second volume.
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding biography of Adolf Hitler.
Comment: Mr Kershaw has written a very engrossing study of Hitler's personal and political lives. The book is very well written - accessible to the general reader, but with a wealth of footnotes for those who would like to dig deeper on their own.
Kershaw has done an admirable job in trying to get at the truth of the events of Hitler's life - not an easy task with so many layers of myth obscuring the subject. One example is the time that Hitler spent in Vienna before the First World War. Using primary and secondary sources, Kershaw paints a detailed picture of Hitler's years in Vienna - a picture that is often at odds with Hitler's own version as published in Mein Kampf.
This book is an authoritative examination of Hitler's "formative years", the creation of the Nazi Party and Hitler's rise to absolute power. I am looking forward to the publication of the second volume.
Rating: 5
Summary: Disturbing, enlightening, and thoroughly good read.
Comment: I speak as a general reader, expert at nothing. This volume has exactly 200 hundred pages (200) of notes and references. It is written with clarity and with a fluid style with sufficient variation, and outstanding structure, and so is no struggle for the general reader - no purple prose, or academic dryness, and is easy to follow the logical and grammatical development of sentence, paragraph and chapter. Its topic sentences are sometimes quite memorable eg, "Crisis was Hitler's oxygen. He needed it to survive." p. 200. In the work, Professor Kershaw refers to housewives like Luise Solmitz, and to reporters like William Shirer and to Generals like Ribbentrop in equal measure. We learn Hitler became a millionaire in his own right through the sales of Mein Kampf. We learn Hitler was, apparently, responsible for breaking the shackles of Versailles, restoring military pride and making Germany a force "to be reckoned with" whilst his party was seen as corrupt and violent - this in itself, how he was able to separate himself from his party so convincingly, is measure of his political skill. We learn (or at least I do) that Hitler introduced compulsory sterilization of the hereditary sick but that the ground had been prepared by the "experts" before Hitler took office. This book is not just a political, or military history, but a social and economic history as well. I suppose the study of this era in the World's history should be required reading for every citizen. Democracy as we know it, emerged the victor at the end of the 20th century, but only by the hair of its chinny chin chin.
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Title: Hitler: 1936-1945: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw ISBN: 0393322521 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The 'Hitler Myth': Image and Reality in the Third Reich by Ian Kershaw, Gerhard Wilke, Detlev Peukert ISBN: 0192802062 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Hitler's Table Talk by Adolf Hitler, Norman Cameron, R. H. Stevens, Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper ISBN: 1929631057 Publisher: Enigma Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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Title: Explaining Hitler : The Search for the Origins of His Evil by Ron Rosenbaum ISBN: 006095339X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich by William L. Shirer ISBN: 0671728687 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 15 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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