Hitler Adolf - Hitler: 1889-1936, Hubris

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HITLER 1889 1936

An exemplary biography trenchant, thorough, sane, beautifully organized John Gross, Sunday Telegraph, Books of the Year

Ian Kershaws Hitler counts among the most significant works on contemporary history in the last decades Frank Schirrmacher, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

This is the most impressive biography of Hitler in the English language Kershaws work supersedes Bullocks celebrated book in every sense, as well as the excellent book by the late William Carr John Lukacs, Spectator

What emerges is an entirely original thesis, a new insight into how this uniquely calamitous dictator managed to come so close to fulfilling his terrible aims Gitta Sereny, The Times

A path-breaking biography [which places] all previous biographies of Hitler in the shade Hans Mommsen, Frankfurter Rundschau

By the end of this volume, we understand how Hitler could have become so identified with Germany, and it with him. Kershaw is able to clarify, perhaps better than any biographer who preceded him, what made Hitlers dictatorial power possible Walter Reich, The New York Times Book Review

It is now perhaps the best explanation in English of why so many Germans subordinated themselves to this absurd, obsessive outsider John Simpson, Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year

Magisterial Anthony Julius, Sunday Telegraph, Books of the Year

Compelling his study will undoubtedly become the standard work, superseding even the superb biographies of Alan Bullock and Joachim Fest Piers Brendon, Mail on Sunday

Ian Kershaw is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield and one of the worlds leading authorities on Hitler. He was the historical adviser to the two BBC series The Nazis: A Warning from History and War of the Century. He is also the author of The Hitler Myth: Image and Reality in the Third Reich, Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich, Bavaria 193345 and The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation; the editor of Weimar: Why Did German Democracy Fail? and Hitler: A Profile in Power; and co-editor, with Moshe Lewin, of Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison. Hitler 188919 36: Hubris was shortlisted for the 1998 Whitbread Biography Award and the first Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Hitler 19361945: Nemesis was shortlisted for the 2000 Whitbread Biography Award, and was awarded the Bruno Kreisky Prize in Austria for the Political Book of the Year and the Wolfson Literary Award for History for 2000.

18891936: HUBRIS

Ian Kershaw

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First published by Allen Lane The Penguin Press 1998
Published in Penguin Books 1999
Published in this format in Penguin Books 2001
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. Adolf Hitler in his Leonding school photo (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich)

. Klara Hitler (Ullstein Bilderdienst, Berlin)

. Alois Hitler (Ullstein Bilderdienst, Berlin)

. Karl Lueger (Hulton Getty, London)

. August Kubizek (The Wiener Library, London)

. The crowd in Odeonsplatz, Munich, 2 August 1914 (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich)

. Hitler with Ernst Schmidt and Anton Bachmann (Bildarchiv Preuischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin)

. German soldiers on the Western Front (Hulton Getty, London)

. Armed members of the KPD Sektion Neuhausen (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich)

. Counterrevolutionary Freikorps troops entering Munich (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich)

. Anton Drexler (Hulton Getty, London)

. Ernst Rhm (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich)

. Hitlers DAP membership card (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich)

. Hitler speaking on the Marsfeld (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich)

. NSDAP mass meeting, Munich, 1923 (Collection Rudolf Herz, Munich)

. Paramilitary organizations on German Day, 1923 (Collection Rudolf Herz, Munich)

. Alfred Rosenberg, Hitler, Friedrich Weber and Christian Weber (Bildarchiv Preuischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin)

Armed SA men manning a barricade (Sddeutscher Verlag, Munich)

. Armed putschists from the area around Munich (Stadtsmuseum, Landeshaupstadt Munich)

. Defendants at the trial of the putschists (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich)

. Hitler immediately after his release from imprisonment (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich)

. Hitler in Landsberg (Bibliothek fr Zeitgeschichte, Stuttgart)

. Hitler in Bavarian costume (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich)

. Hitler in a raincoat (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich)

. Hitler with his alsatian, Prinz (Collection Rudolf Herz, Munich)

. The Party Rally, Weimar, July 1926 (Ullstein Bilderdienst, Berlin)

. The Party Rally, Nuremberg, August 1927 (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich)

. Hitler in SA uniform (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich)

. Hitler in rhetorical pose (Karl Stehle, Munich)

. Hitler speaking to the NSDAP leadership (Bildarchiv Preuischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin)

. Geli Raubal and Hitler (David Gainsborough Roberts)

. Eva Braun (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich)

. Reich President Paul von Hindenburg (AKG London)

. Reich Chancellor Heinrich Brning with Benito Mussolini (AKG London)

. Reich Chancellor Franz von Papen with State Secretary Dr Otto Meissner (Bundesarchiv, Koblenz)

. Gregor Strasser and Joseph Goebbels (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich)

. Ernst Thlmann (Hulton Getty, London)

. Nazi election poster, 1932 (AKG London)

. Candidate placards for the presidential election (Bundesarchiv, Koblenz)

. Discussion at Neudeck (AKG London)

. Reich Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher (AKG London)

. Hitler in evening dress (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich)

. Hitler bows to Reich President von Hindenburg (AKG London)

. SA violence against Communists (AKG London)