
Hitler
A Biography
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Narrated by:
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Alan Robertson
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By:
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Ian Kershaw
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, 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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Would you listen to Hitler again? Why?
There are so many details in this incredible volume and yet it never feels try or devoid of storytelling. Simply a wonderfully done volume.Simply Wonderful
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Would you listen to Hitler again? Why?
The book is brilliant and is said to be one of the best Hitler biographies out there.How could the performance have been better?
Sadly the narrator does not speak German. It is very difficult to keep focus on what is being read when every German name or word in the book - and there are a few, given the subject - is pronounced wrongly. Goebbels is Gurbles, Nazi is notzie, and so on. The narrator does a good job except for the fact that he does not know a word of German. It drives me insane listening to this book.Any additional comments?
Read it yourself instead.Great biography, so-so narration
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So...
I decided to cheat and bought the audio book.
The audible book was far more than I expected and helped me get through the read much easier than expected.
Great job
I'm not a "big" book reader
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In depth and detailed
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One of the most disturbing accounts of history
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Unfortunately the listening experience ruins it. There seems to be some corruption in the audio files as it frequently stops playing and shows “An error occurred.” I don’t have this issue with any of the other ~100 titles in my library. Killing/restarting the app does nothing. Switching to any other title results immediately in normal playback. Switching back to this title immediately brings the problem back. I’ve also deleted the cache and redownloaded the book. The issue persists.
I wish I could listen to this great book.
Great book, severe playback problems
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Audible Censorship
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Great! Great! Very Easy to Listen to
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Pronunciation of German names very bad
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Excellent book
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