Synopses & Reviews
Based on previously unpublished documents, diaries, notes, photographs, and dramatic interviews with Hitler's colleagues and associates, this is the definitive biography of one of the most despised yet fascinating figures of the 20th century. Toland won the Pulitzer Prize in 1971 for The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945.
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"This big, sprawling biography is one of the most entertaining—if that word can be applied to the subject—studies of Hitler that we are ever likely to see. Not as scholarly as Joachim Fest's book, it is nevertheless well researched, and it is written in a lively and provocative style. In some respects the Hitler who emerges is almost too human, too normal; one is left with the uncomfortable feeling that if he had not existed a perfectly adequate stand-in would have been found, and the monstrous story would have unfolded in much the same way. For Hitler was a product of his time, and Mr. Toland has told the story of that awful period well." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)
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"Unusually revealing...highly detailed...marvelously absorbing." New York Times
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"The first book that anyone who wants to learn about Hitler or the war in Europe must read. Much that is new or little known...a marvel of fact." Newsweek
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"A significant contribution to the history of our time." Houston Chronicle
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"An unusually revealing picture...highly detailed...a marvelously absorbing popular history...must be ranked as one of the most complete pictures of Hitler we have yet had." New York Times
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"Toland weaves the epic tapestry of popular history, meshing together thousands of details into monumental narratives of war-time drama." Chicago Tribune
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"Thorough, carefully documented, and authoritative." Library Journal
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"Massive, masterful...should stand as a landmark in the literature of ideological megalomania." San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle
Synopsis
A national bestseller with more than 370,000 copies in print, this is "the first book that anyone who wants to learn about Hitler or the war in Europe must read... a marvel of fact."--Newsweek
Synopsis
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.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [906]-923) and index.