- Politics and government, Heads of state, Nonfiction, Antisemitism
Ian Kershaw's HITLER allows us to come closer than ever before to a serious understanding of the man and of the catastrophic sequence of events which allowed a bizarre misfit to climb from a Viennese dosshouse to leadership of one of Europe's most sophisticated countries.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and epic.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Ian Kershaw
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 880
- Publisher
- Allen Lane, Penguin UK, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt DVA
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- Spanish, German, French, English
- ISBN
- 9788483074510
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“The first of many strokes of good fortune for Adolf Hitler took place thirteen years before he was born.”
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