Adolf Hitler

By: John Toland

Published December 1st 1991 by Anchor (first published 1976)

Category: Biography

Pages: 1120 pages

ISBN: 9780385420532

Description:
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian John TolandÕs 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.

TolandÕs 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 fŸhrer 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 TolandÕs words, Òfar more complex and contradictory . . . obsessed by his dream of cleansing Europe Jews . . . a hybrid of Prometheus and Lucifer.Ó