Hitler 1936 1945

Author : Ian Kershaw
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141925813

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Hitler 1936-1945 by Ian Kershaw Pdf

Following the enormous success of HITLER: HUBRIS this book triumphantly completes one of the great modern biographies. No figure in twentieth century history more clearly demands a close biographical understanding than Adolf Hitler; and no period is more important than the Second World War. Beginning with Hitler's startling European successes in the aftermath of the Rhinelland occupation and ending nine years later with the suicide in the Berlin bunker, Kershaw allows us as never before to understand the motivation and the impact of this bizarre misfit. He addresses the 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.

Author : Ian Kershaw
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 1242 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Antisemitism
ISBN : 0393322521

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Hitler, 1936-45 by Ian Kershaw Pdf

"In this volume, Ian Kershaw introduces Adolf Hitler at the apex of his power, idolized by millions of Germans for bringing the nation out of economic catastrophe. The Nazi party, the armed forces, the industrial cartels, and the civil servants are all "working towards the Fuhrer." Meanwhile, Hitler is poised to realize his Mephistophelean vision : the subjugation of Europe under the Thousand Year Reich and, in the process, the annihilation of the Jews. For three years, Hitler and his relentless armies pluge the European continent into a bloodbath, as German soldiers, accompanied by fanatical SS units, slaughter conquered troops and civilians alike. Then, as Allied might prevails, Kershaw reveals a Hitler transformed from invincible warlord to desperate gambler, ultimately bring destruction to his country and ending his life in a bunker under the ruines of Berlin. Based on immense research, including the use of many previously untapped sources, Hitler, 1936-1945"--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Ian Kershaw
Publisher : Allan Lane
Page : 1115 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01
Category : Antisemitism
ISBN : 0713992298

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Hitler by Ian Kershaw Pdf

It is impossible to offer an adequate parallel to Hitler's situation in 1936. With the peaceful resolution of the Rhineland crisis, Hitler became both the adored object of the vast majority of Germans and an international symbol of modernity and dynamism. He managed this while in reality being the dictator of a system of single-minded viciousness new to human experience.

Author : Ian Kershaw
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 1212 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393067572

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Hitler by Ian Kershaw Pdf

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 : Ian Kershaw
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041092458

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Hitler by Ian Kershaw Pdf

This book addresses the nature and mechanics of Hitler's rise to power.

Author : Ian Kershaw
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300148237

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Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution by Ian Kershaw Pdf

This volume presents a comprehensive, multifaceted picture both of the destructive dynamic of the Nazi leadership and of the attitudes and behavior of ordinary Germans as the persecution of the Jews spiraled into total genocide.

Author : Ian Kershaw
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143122135

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The End by Ian Kershaw Pdf

From the author of To Hell and Back, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost the Second World War, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the equally vital questions of how and why the Third Reich did not surrender until Germany had been left in ruins and almost completely occupied. Drawing on prodigious new research, Ian Kershaw, an award-winning historian and the author of Fateful Choices, explores these fascinating questions in a gripping and focused narrative that begins with the failed bomb plot in July 1944 and ends with the death of Adolf Hitler and the German capitulation in 1945. The End paints a harrowing yet enthralling portrait of the Third Reich in its last desperate gasps.

Author : Ian Kershaw
Publisher : Lane, Allen
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0149030118

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Hitler 1936-1945 Nemesis Sml Banner by Ian Kershaw Pdf

Author : Ian Kershaw
Publisher : DVA
Page : 1187 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783641119836

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Hitler 1936 – 1945 by Ian Kershaw Pdf

Ein epochales Werk, ein Höhepunkt der Geschichtsschreibung Das auf zwei Bände angelegte Werk des britischen Historikers Ian Kershaw ist beides: eine Biographie Hitlers und eine Geschichte der NS-Zeit. Es untersucht eindrucksvoll die historischen Kräfte, die einen trägen österreichischen Träumer in einen Diktator mit immenser Macht verwandelten. Kershaw vertritt den Standpunkt, dass die Ursachen für Hitlers Macht nicht nur in den Taten des Diktators gesucht werden müssen, sondern auch (und ganz besonders) in den sozialen Verhältnissen eines Staates, der es ihm erlaubte, alle institutionellen und moralischen Grenzen zu überschreiten.

Author : Volker Ullrich
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 881 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101872062

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Hitler: Downfall by Volker Ullrich Pdf

A riveting account of the dictator’s final years, when he got the war he wanted but led his nation, the world, and himself to catastrophe—from the author of Hitler: Ascent “Skillfully conceived and utterly engrossing.” —The New York Times Book Review In the summer of 1939, Hitler was at the zenith of his power. Having consolidated political control in Germany, he was at the helm of a newly restored major world power, and now perfectly positioned to realize his lifelong ambition: to help the German people flourish and to exterminate those who stood in the way. Beginning a war allowed Hitler to take his ideological obsessions to unthinkable extremes, including the mass genocide of millions, which was conducted not only with the aid of the SS, but with the full knowledge of German leadership. Yet despite a series of stunning initial triumphs, Hitler’s fateful decision to invade the Soviet Union in 1941 turned the tide of the war in favor of the Allies. Now, Volker Ullrich, author of Hitler: Ascent 1889–1939, offers fascinating new insight into Hitler’s character and personality. He vividly portrays the insecurity, obsession with minutiae, and narcissistic penchant for gambling that led Hitler to overrule his subordinates and then blame them for his failures. When he ultimately realized the war was not winnable, Hitler embarked on the annihilation of Germany itself in order to punish the people who he believed had failed to hand him victory. A masterful and riveting account of a spectacular downfall, Ullrich’s rendering of Hitler’s final years is an essential addition to our understanding of the dictator and the course of the Second World War.

Author : Ian Kershaw
Publisher : Lane, Allen
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 014903010X

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Hitler 1936-1945 Nemesis Lge Banner by Ian Kershaw Pdf

Author : Volker Ullrich
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 1034 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385354387

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Hitler by Volker Ullrich Pdf

Originally published: Germany: S. Fischer Verlag.

Author : Ian Kershaw
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141924281

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Luck of the Devil by Ian Kershaw Pdf

'It is now time that something was done. But the man who has the courage to do something must do it in the knowledge that he will go down in German history as a traitor. If he does not, however, he will be a traitor to his own conscience' Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, July 1944 The July 1944 Plot to kill Adolf Hitler was a desperate attempt by a group of senior officers to redeem Germany's honour and end the Second World War. They were heroic because they knew their chances of success were slight and that the result of their failure would undoubtedly be a terrible death. They wanted to leave a message for later generations: that there were Germans who understood the evils of Nazism and were willing to act against it. This extraordinary story is the basis for Bryan Singer's major new film Valkyrie, due to be released in February 2009. Published for the first time as a separate book, Luck of the Devil is taken from Ian Kershaw's bestselling Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis and is a brilliant account of just what happened in those fateful days at Hitler's Wolf's Lair headquarters, when his opponents came so astonishingly close to assassinating what is one of the modern era's most terrible figures.

Author : Ian Kershaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317874584

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Hitler by Ian Kershaw Pdf

Adolf Hitler has left a lasting mark on the twentieth-century, as the dictator of Germany and instigator of a genocidal war, culminating in the ruin of much of Europe and the globe. This innovative best-seller explores the nature and mechanics of Hitler's power, and how he used it.

Author : Ian Kershaw
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780140133639

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Hitler 1889 To 1936 Hubris by Ian Kershaw Pdf

Ian Kershaw's Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris charts the rise of Adolf Hitler, from a bizarre misfit in a Viennese dosshouse, to dictatorial leadership. With extraordinary skill and vividness, drawing on a huge range of sources, Kershaw recreates the world which first thwarted and then nurtured Hitler in his youth, from early childhood to the first successes of the Nazi Party. As his seemingly pitiful fantasy of being Germany's saviour attracted more and more support, Kershaw brilliantly conveys why so many Germans adored Hitler, connived with him or felt powerless to resist him. 'Supersedes all previous accounts. It is the sort of masterly biography that only a first-rate historian can write' David Cannadine, Observer Books of the Year 'The Hitler biography for the 21st century ... cool, judicious, factually reliable and intelligently argued' Richard Evans, Sunday Telegraph 'One of the major historical biographies of our times ... a riveting read' Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times, Best Biographies of the Year 'His analysis of Hitler's extraordinary character has the fascination of a novel, but he places his struggle and rise in the context of meticulously researched history ... Deeply disturbing. Unforgettable' A.N. Wilson, Daily Mail 'A sane, erudite, moral and intellectually honest biography of the 20th century's most destructive politician' Ruth Scurr, The Times Ian Kershaw's other books include Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis, Making Friends with Hitler, Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World 1940-4 and The End: Hitler's Germany, 1944-45. Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis received the Wolfson History Prize and the Bruno Kreisky Prize in Austria for Political Book of the Year, and was joint winner of the inaugural British Academy Book Prize.