num_pages: 246
description: 2003 Sibert Medal Winner Many people believe Hitler was the personification of evil. In this Sibert Medal-winning biography, James Cross Giblin penetrates this façade and presents a picture of a complex person—at once a brilliant, influential politician and a deeply disturbed man.In a straightforward and nonsensational manner, the author explores the forces that shaped the man as well as the social conditions that furthered his rapid rise to power. Against a background of crucial historical events, Giblin traces the arc of Hitler’s life from 1889 to 1945: his childhood, his years as a frustrated artist in Vienna, his extraordinary rise as dictator of Germany, his final days in an embattled bunker under Berlin. Powerful archival images provide a haunting visual accompaniment to this clear and compelling account of a life that left an ineradicable mark on our world. Author’s note, bibliography, index.
language: English
title: The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler
titlecomplete: The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler
characters: Adolf Hitler
genres: Politics, Historical, Biography, Childrens, Teen, War, Nonfiction, History, Holocaust, World War II
ratings_count: 371
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Sibert Medal
publisher: Clarion Books