Description
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 f hrer 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."Author: John Toland
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 12/01/1991
Pages: 1120
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.35lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.06w x 1.90d
ISBN13: 9780385420532
ISBN10: 0385420536
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Biography & Autobiography | Political
About the Author
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.