num_pages: 1072
description: Finally the one-volume edition of Ian Kershaw's definitive and masterful biography of Hitler.The Hitler biography of the twenty-first century (Richard J. Evans) Ian Kershaw's Hitler is a new distilled one-volume masterpiece that will become the standard work. From Hitler's origins as a failed artist in fin-de-siecle Vienna to the terrifying last days in his Berlin bunker Kershaw's richly illustrated biography is a mesmerizing portrait of how Hitler attained exercised and retained power. Drawing on previously untapped sources such as Goebbels's diaries Kershaw addresses crucial questions about the unique nature of Nazi radicalism about the Holocaust and about the poisoned European world that allowed Hitler to operate so effectively.151 photographs; 8 maps
language: English
title: Hitler
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company