His success as Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, President of the Reichstag, and Prime Minister of Prussia, secured Goering's future as Hitler's designated successor. This major biography takes you to Hitler's inner circle, and inside one its most powerful, fascinating and complex members.
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Richard Overy has taught at King's College, London and at Cambridge. He is married with five children.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Read it together with David Irving's biography,
By Devl's Advocate "RSHA" (Hölle) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Goering: The Iron Man (Hardcover)
This book is very much an analysis of the malignant effects of putting Göring in charge of the Four Year Economic Plan, the wastage and inefficiency resulting from his mis and non management of the economy. To get a better feel of Göring as a person, vile, vainglorious, vulgar, you should also read Irving's book.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Informative but somewhat difficult to read,
By Harmonious "angelapi" (San Juan, PR Puerto Rico) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Goering (Hardcover)
This is a good book even if it does not resemble a conventional biography. The book has scant information on Goering's private life concentrating itself, rather, on Goering's performance at the helm of the German economy during Nazi rule. The author has a superb grasp of the subject at hand and he does portray an encompassing picture of German economic affairs during World War 2. Mr. Overy is an accomplished writer; his sentences are elegant and clear. Nonetheless, the book is difficult to read because the chapters and, even many paragraphs, are overly extensive causing fatigue to the reader. Overall, it is a good book that taught me a lot about Goering, the Nazis, and the German war effort.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
More German Economics than Goering Bio,
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This review is from: Goering: The Iron Man (Hardcover)
While this book may be considered a biography it deals more with German economics and Luftwaffe related events than with the actual life of Hermann Goering.If you are expecting a bio along the lines of Padfield's exhaustive "Himmler" or Kershaw's masterful "Hitler: Hubris" or "Hitler: Nemesis" forget it, this isn't for you. There are other Goering Bios that do a much better job of fleshing out the life of their subject than this relatively short book. This book does do a passable job of covering Goering's war years and his influence on ,and failure of, the Third Reich.
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