Hitler
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · October 28, 2002
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- Genres
- Political Lives, German History, World War II History
- Published
- HarperCollins, October 28, 2002
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A bestseller in its original German edition and subsequently translated into more than a dozen languages, Joachim Fest's Hitler as become a classic portrait of a man, a nation, and an era. Fest tells and interprets the extraordinary story of a man's and a nation's rise from impotence to absolute power, as Germany and Hitler, from shared premises, entered into their covenant.
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He shows Hitler exploiting the resentments of the shaken, post-World War I social order and seeing through all that was hollow behind the appearance of power, at home and abroad. Fest reveals the singularly penetrating politician, hypnotizing Germans and outsiders alike with the scope of his projects and the theatricality of their presentation. Fest also, perhaps most importantly, brilliantly uncovers the destructive personality who aimed at and achieved devastation on an unprecedented scale. As history and as biography, this is a towering achievement, a compelling story told in a way only a German could tell it, "dispassionately, but from the inside." (Time)
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Come here for
- Hitler-focused history
- layered insight and explanation
Expect
- sustained narrative arc
- immersion with context
Where it sits
| German History | 42% |
|---|---|
| Political Lives | 39% |
| World War II History | 29% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Cultural Heritage Lives
- Lives in History
- Military Lives
- Political Lives
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- Personal Memoirs
- German History
- Military History
- World War II History
- Authors
- Joachim C. Fest, Frederick Davidson, Richard Winstton - translator
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- October 28, 2002
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Cultural Heritage Lives