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Title: The Devil's Disciples: Hitler's Inner Circle by Anthony Read ISBN: 0-393-04800-4 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: March, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: holy cow!
Comment: this is the best account of the inner day to day machinations of hitler's rise to power yet! wm. shirer left so much out! its fascinatingly told and once started you wont wanna put it down! its not for the faint of heart as every single detail is enclosed. Read has taken the diaries of all the major characters and placed the most significant details in an almost chronological order! i am only half way through and they haven't started the invasion of Poland yet! it does tend to concentrate on the main characters and the important decisions they made that lead to what happened. Read uses a lot of German names of places that can be confusing. a glossary would have been helpful. it will rate with Shirer's accounts of the third reich for centuies to come!
Rating: 4
Summary: Faustian Bargains With Hitler Lead to Ignominous Death
Comment: Anthony Read has written a wonderful book on a horrible tyrrany. Read traces the rise of Nazism from its infamous beginnings in post World WarI Germany to the fall of the Third Recih and the trial of the Nazi Criminals at Nuremburg.
Read focuses on the three men closest to Hitler in the rise
to power. Herman Goring the master of the Lutfwaffe; Joseph Goebbels the Mephistopheles of the Ministry of Propaganda and
the chicken farmer turned mass murderer and leader of the SS
Henreich Himmler.
The book is lengthy with over 900 pages filled with excellent thumbnail sketches of the personalities who together made Germany a prison for anyone who wishes to think for themselves and live in a climate of religious toleration.
Anyone who teaches the history of the Third Reich should use this book. The only caveat is its lack of maps and detailed notes in the bibliography.
Read kept my attention throughout this worthwhile tour through the Dantian hell of Hitlerian Germany.
The book is a tour de force and worthy of praise!
Rating: 4
Summary: A Faustian tale of HItler's Evil Lieutenants in lurid detail
Comment: Hitler was the evil genius of the rise of Nazism in post-World War I Germany. Everyone knows his name but few know how he rose to power using fiendish guile, deceit, trickery, thuggery and
Antisemtic hatred to rise from the streets of Vienna to his
ghoulish death in a Berlin bunker in 1945.
In this 900 page popular history of the rise and fall of Nazism the British historian Anthony Read tells the story of
Nazism by tracking the career of Hitler's evil trinity of
Herman Goring, Dr. J. Goebbels and Himmler the sadistic and
cruel head of the SS.
As one who has read countless books on the Nazi era I would place this easy to read and understand book as one of the best.
It is a cautionary tale of how intelligent men and amoral bounders can alike be seduced by the siren call of a dictator
such as Hitler.
The one problem I have with the work is the lack of maps.
This book doesn't have anything new to say about the era for scholars but as a digestible history of the times it is outstanding.
I have enjoyed Read's work in the past and hope this latest volume will do well in the United States. The evil of Nazism and the hatred between the races must never be forgotten in our historical consciousness.
Well recommended!
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Title: The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans ISBN: 1594200041 Publisher: The Penguin Press Pub. Date: 05 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Inside Hitler's Bunker : The Last Days of the Third Reich by Joachim Fest, Margot Dembo ISBN: 0374135770 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Stalin : The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore ISBN: 1400042305 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 13 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Europe's Last Summer : Who Started the Great War in 1914? by DAVID FROMKIN ISBN: 0375411569 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 23 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942 (Comprehensive History of the Holocaust Series) by Christopher R. Browning, Jurgen Matthaus ISBN: 0803213271 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: March, 2004 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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