Deze monumentale biografie duikt in het leven en de heerschappij van een van de meest beruchte dictators van de 20e eeuw. Het onderzoekt nauwgezet zijn opkomst naar de macht, zijn destructieve ideologie en zijn diepgaande impact op de wereldgeschiedenis. Het werk biedt diepgaand inzicht in de psyche van een figuur die het lot van miljoenen heeft gevormd. Het is een cruciale bron voor het begrijpen van de moderne geschiedenis en de aard van het kwaad.
Kershaw presents an understanding of Hitler and of the sequence of events which allowed a misfit to climb to the leadership of Germany. As Hitler's pitiful fantasy of being Germany's saviour attracted more and more support, Kershaw conveys why so many Germans adored and connived with him or felt powerless to resist him.
Nemesis
It is impossible to offer an adequate parallel to Hitler's situation in 1936. With the peaceful resolution of the Rhineland crisis, Hitler became both the adored object of the vast majority of Germans and an international symbol of modernity and dynamism. He managed this while in reality being the dictator of a system of single-minded viciousness new to human experience.
Finally, the one-volume edition of Ian Kershaw's definitive and masterful biography of Hitler. "The Hitler biography of the twenty-first century" (Richard J. Evans), Ian Kershaw's Hitler is a new, distilled, one-volume masterpiece that will become the standard work. From Hitler's origins as a failed artist in fin-de-si_cle Vienna to the terrifying last days in his Berlin bunker, Kershaw's richly illustrated biography is a mesmerizing portrait of how Hitler attained, exercised, and retained power. Drawing on previously untapped sources, such as Goebbels's diaries, Kershaw addresses crucial questions about the unique nature of Nazi radicalism, about the Holocaust, and about the poisoned European world that allowed Hitler to operate so effectively. 151 photographs; 8 maps. "As close to definitive as anything we are ever likely to see."Jane Kramer, The New Yorker "A superb biography."Ian Buruma, New York Times Book Review "Massive, extensively researched, extraordinarily balanced, and remarkably judicious."Omer Bartov, The New Republic "Will become the classic Hitler biography of our time."Gordon Craig, New York Review of Books
Ian Kershaw's biography of Hitler is a definitive work that combines a personal history of the dictator with an analysis of the forces that enabled his rise to power. Kershaw explores Hitler's impact and the context of Nazi Germany, providing a vivid account of his ascent and the resulting atrocities of World War II.