Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (904 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 038535438X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1008 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Ullrich is a journalist rather than an academic, which partly explains one of the book’s many positive features — its remarkable fluency and readability…For an entirely sound, interesting and even entertaining account, Mr. Ullrich’s study can be thoroughly recommended as a most worthwhile addition to the voluminous literature on the man.”—Neil Gregor, The Wall Street Journal“The author deals with the usual turns, such as Hitler’s rough years as an aspiring artist and the horrors of trench warfare in World War I, but he adds welcome observations and interesting asides along the way…Timely, given the increase in right-wing intransigence throughout the world, and one of the best works on Hitler and the origins of the Third Reich to appear in recent years.”—Kirkus“A fascinating Shakespearean parable about how the confluence of circumstance, chance, a ruthless individual and the willful b
Best source for Hitler's life Richard Moss The best source for Hitler's life up to the outbreak of WW2. Clear, level-headed. Absorbing.Best source for Hitler's life: Kershaw's classic two-volume biography is the obvious comparison. Ullrich has 15 years of subsequent research to draw on. As well, Kershaw presents a Life and Times, while Ullrich focuses on the life. Ullrich can seem plodding in comparison with Kershaw's brilliance, and subs. A dense, crucial and scholarly work Bookreporter First published in Germany in 2013, HITLER: ASCENT 1889-1939 is a dense, scholarly work that looks at the dictator of the Third Reich from many perspectives, offering perhaps the most “human” view available in our times.Volker Ullrich states that writing about Adolf Hitler is “without a doubt the most difficult task for a historian.” Hitler was, by the time of his suicide . C. M Mills said Hitler Ascent 1889-19Hitler Ascent 1889-1939 is a well written thorough account of evil Adolf's rise to the Chancellorship of Germany in 1933 What If's abound in the discipline of history. How great it would have been if Adolf Hitler had never been born to leash untold murder on the Jewish population of Europe and to lead to the murder of millions of victims in the inferno of World War II. But Hitler was born. He did live.His story has been told in millions of words and thousands of books. What makes this book by Dr. Volker Ullrich ori. 9 is a well written thorough account of evil Adolf's rise to the Chancellorship of Germany in 19Hitler Ascent 1889-1939 is a well written thorough account of evil Adolf's rise to the Chancellorship of Germany in 1933 What If's abound in the discipline of history. How great it would have been if Adolf Hitler had never been born to leash untold murder on the Jewish population of Europe and to lead to the murder of millions of victims in the inferno of World War II. But Hitler was born. He did live.His story has been told in millions of words and thousands of books. What makes this book by Dr. Volker Ullrich ori. Hitler Ascent 1889-1939 is a well written thorough account of evil Adolf's rise to the Chancellorship of Germany in 1933 What If's abound in the discipline of history. How great it would have been if Adolf Hitler had never been born to leash untold murder on the Jewish population of Europe and to lead to the murder of millions of victims in the inferno of World War II. But Hitler was born. He did live.His story has been told in millions of words and thousands of books. What makes this book by Dr. Volker Ullrich ori. . What If's abound in the discipline of history. How great it would have been if Adolf Hitler had never been born to leash untold murder on the Jewish population of Europe and to lead to the murder of millions of victims in the inferno of World War II. But Hitler was born. He did live.His story has been told in millions of words and thousands of books. What makes this book by Dr. Volker Ullrich ori
A major new biography—an extraordinary, penetrating study of the man who has become the personification of evil.“Ullrich reveals Hitler to have been an eminently practical politician—and frighteningly so. Ullrich gives us a comprehensive portrait of a postwar Germany humiliated by defeat, wracked by political crisis, and starved by an economic depression, but his real gift is to show vividly how Hitler used his ruthlessness and political talent to shape the Nazi party and lead it to power. For decades the world has tried to grasp how Hitler was possible. Many previous biographies have focused on the larger social conditions that explain the rise of the Third Reich. Ullrich deftly captures Hitler's intellig
From 1990 to 2009, Ullrich was the editor of the political book review section of the influential weekly newspaper Die Zeit. . VOLKER ULLRICH is a historian and journalist whose previous books in German include biographies of Bismarck and Napoleon, as well as a major study of Imperial Germany, Die nervöse Grossmacht