Hitler: A Biography

by Kershaw,Ian

• ISBN13: 9780393337617
• ISBN10: 0393337618
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-18
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

This one-volume edition of Kershaw's "superb biography" (Ian Buruma, "New York Times Book Review") of Hitler will be the final word on the most demonic figure of the 20th century. of photos.

Author Biography

Ian Kershaw is a professor of modern history at the University of Sheffield. For services to history he was given the German award of the Federal Gross of Merit and was knighted in 2002. His book Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and Britain's Road to War won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography in 2005.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Glossary of Abbreviations	p. xiv
Maps	p. xv
Preface to the New Edition	p. xxvii
Reflecting on Hitler	p. xxxii
Fantasy and Failure	p. 1
Drop-out	p. 18
Elation and Embitterment	p. 47
The Beerhall Agitator	p. 66
The 'Drummer'	p. 105
Emergence of the Leader	p. 139
Mastery over the Movement	p. 160
Breakthrough	p. 196
Levered into Power	p. 236
The Making of the Dictator	p. 260
Securing Total Power	p. 301
Working Towards the Führer	p. 320
Ceaseless Radicalization	p. 358
The Drive for Expansion	p. 401
Marks of a Genocidal Mentality	p. 448
Going for Broke	p. 470
Licensing Barbarism	p. 514
Zenith of Power	p. 550
Designing a 'War of Annihilation'	p. 589
Showdown	p. 622
Fulfilling the 'Prophecy'	p. 668
Last Big Throw of the Dice	p. 700
Beleaguered	p. 745
Hoping for Miracles	p. 779
Luck of the Devil	p. 816
No Way Out	p. 843
Into the Abyss	p. 888
Extinction	p. 922
Epilogue	p. 956
Main Published Primary Sources on Hitler	p. 971
Index	p. 975
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