Ian Kershaw

Hitler

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Tells the story of how a bitter, failed art student from an obscure corner of Austria rose to unparalleled power, destroying the lives of millions and bringing the world to the brink of Armageddon.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Trade Paperback
• Seitenzahl: 1072
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 130mm x 53mm
• Gewicht: 838g
• ISBN-13: 9780141035888
• ISBN-10: 0141035889
• Artikelnr.: 25029634

Autorenporträt

Ian Kershaw is the author of Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis, which received the Wolfson Literary Award for History and the Bruno Kreisky Prize in Austria for the Political Book of the Year, and was joint winner of the inaugural British Academy Book Prize. His other books include Making Friends with Hitler, which won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography; Fateful Choices; The End; and his histories of modern Europe, To Hell and Back and Roller-Coaster.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction I. POWER OF THE 'IDEA' II. GETTING POWER
III.REPRESSION AND POWER IV.PLEBISCITARY POWER V. EXPANSION OF POWER
VI.ABSOLUTE POWER VII. HUBRIS OF POWER Conclusion Further Reading
Chronology Abbreviations Index

Rezensionen

Supersedes all previous accounts. It is the sort of masterly biography that only a first-rate historian can write David Cannadine Observer