Hitler : : a Biography
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This one-volume abridgement with a new preface originally published in Great Britain 2008. First American Edition 2008.
Fantasy and failure -- Drop-out -- Elation and embitterment -- The beerhall agitator -- The 'drummer' -- Emergence of the leader -- Mastery over the movement -- Breakthrough -- Levered into power -- The making of the dictator -- Securing total power -- Working towards the Führer -- Ceaseless radicalization -- The drive for expansion -- Marks of a genocidal mentality -- Going for broke -- Licensing barbarism -- Zenith of power -- Designing a 'war of annihilation' -- Showdown -- Fulfilling the 'prophecy' -- Last big throw of the dice -- Beleaguered -- Hoping for miracles -- Luck of the devil -- No way out -- Into the abyss -- Extinction.
A single-volume edition of a classic biographical work traces Hitler's life and addresses key questions about the nature of Nazi radicalism, the Holocaust, and the factors that enabled European society to permit his atrocities.
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PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: xli, 1030 pages, 80 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780393337617 (trade pbk.)
0393337618 (trade pbk.)
SUBJECTS
Hitler, Adolf, -- 1889-1945.
Heads of state -- Germany -- Biography.