Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris

Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext Drawing on a huge range of sources, this book recreates the world which first thwarted and then nurtured Hitler in the author's youth, from early childhood to the first successes of the Nazi Party. It charts the rise of Adolf Hitler, from a bizarre misfit in a Viennese dosshouse, to dictatorial leadership. Zusammenfassung Drawing on a huge range of sources, this book recreates the world which first thwarted and then nurtured Hitler in the author's youth, from early childhood to the first successes of the Nazi Party. It charts the rise of Adolf Hitler, from a bizarre misfit in a Viennese dosshouse, to dictatorial leadership. Inhaltsverzeichnis Fantasy and failure; drop-out; elation and embitterment; discovering a talent; the beerhall agitator; the "drummer"; emergence of the leader; mastery over the movement; breakthrough; levered into power; the making of the dictator; securing total power; working towards to Fuhrer.

Product details

• Authors: Ian Kershaw
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 25.10.2001
• EAN: 9780140133639
• ISBN: 978-0-14-013363-9
• No. of pages: 845
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 45 mm
• Series: Penguin Pocketbooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; Hitler, Adolf, austria, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, Germany, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Biography: historical, political and military