
Hitler
Ascent 1889-1939
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Narrated by:
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Don Hagen
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By:
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Volker Ullrich
A major new biography - an extraordinary, penetrating study of the man who has become the personification of evil.
For all the literature about Adolf Hitler, there have been just four seminal biographies; this is the fifth, a landmark work that sheds important new light on Hitler himself. Drawing on previously unseen papers and a wealth of recent scholarly research, Volker Ullrich reveals the man behind the public persona, from Hitler's childhood, to his failures as a young man in Vienna, to his experiences during the First World War, to his rise as a far-right party leader. Ullrich deftly captures Hitler's intelligence, instinctive grasp of politics, and gift for oratory as well as his megalomania, deep insecurity, and repulsive worldview.
Many previous biographies have focused on the larger social conditions that explain the rise of the Third Reich. Ullrich gives us a comprehensive portrait of a postwar Germany humiliated by defeat, wracked by political crisis, and starved by an economic depression - but his real gift is to show vividly how Hitler used his ruthlessness and political talent to shape the Nazi party and lead it to power. For decades the world has tried to grasp how Hitler was possible. By focusing on the man at the center of it all, on how he experienced his world, formed his political beliefs, and wielded power, this riveting biography brings us closer than ever to the answer.
Translated from the German by Jefferson Chase.
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Worthwhile if you haven't read a Hitler biography
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Adds a lot
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This book proves relevant especially if you think like many Germans did back then- that it can't happen here, were too civilized a country.
Timely Story
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Excellent…best yet
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Excellent
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EXHAUSTIBLY Thorough, Highly Informative
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Riveting
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Great book!
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Info good reading not so much.
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individual that he was.
Gripping, eye opening look into the life of HItler
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