Hitler: A Biography
by Kershaw,IanFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-01-18
Publisher(s): W. W. Norton & Company
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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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