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Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography Paperback – January 1, 1992
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian John Toland’s classic, definitive biography of Adolf Hitler remains the most thorough, readable, accessible, and, as much as possible, objective account of the life of a man whose evil effect on the world in the twentieth century will always be felt.
Toland’s research provided one of the final opportunities for a historian to conduct personal interviews with over two hundred individuals intimately associated with Hitler. At a certain distance yet still with access to many of the people who enabled and who opposed the führer and his Third Reich, Toland strove to treat this life as if Hitler lived and died a hundred years before instead of within his own memory. From childhood and obscurity to his desperate end, Adolf Hitler emerges as, in Toland’s words, “far more complex and contradictory . . . obsessed by his dream of cleansing Europe Jews . . . a hybrid of Prometheus and Lucifer.”
- Print length1120 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherAnchor
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1992
- Dimensions6 x 2.55 x 9.22 inches
- ISBN-109780385420532
- ISBN-13978-0385420532
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“The first book that anyone who wants to learn about Hitler or [World War II] in Europe must read. . . . A marvel.” —Newsweek
“Toland weaves the epic tapestry of popular history, meshing together thousands of details into monumental narratives of wartime drama.” —Chicago Tribune
“An unusually revealing picture . . . highly detailed . . . marvelously absorbing . . . must be ranked as one of the most complete pictures of Hitler.” —The New York Times
“A significant contribution.” —Houston Chronicle
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John Toland, the author of fifteen works of history and fiction, including Infamy: World War II and Its Aftermath, received the Pulitzer Prize for his magisterial Rising Sun: The Decline of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945. Mr. Toland died in 2004.
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- ASIN : 0385420536
- Publisher : Anchor
- Publication date : January 1, 1992
- Edition : First Edition
- Language : English
- Print length : 1120 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780385420532
- ISBN-13 : 978-0385420532
- Item Weight : 2.59 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 2.55 x 9.22 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #222,384 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #28 in Fascism (Books)
- #152 in Political Leader Biographies
- #184 in World War II History (Books)
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John Willard Toland (June 29, 1912 – January 4, 2004) was an American writer and historian. He is best known for a biography of Adolf Hitler and a Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II-era Japan, The Rising Sun.
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