Hitler
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.89 (961 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0007413491 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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From acclaimed biographer A. Within a decade he was German Chancellor, one of the most powerful men in Europe. But he was not a regular politician, but rather a conjurer, seeing politics not as the Art of the Possible but as the Art of the Impossible: 'Whereas politicians watched the weather and waited for calm, Hitler wanted to ride storms.' Among the book's many insights, Wilson shows how Hitler had an intuitive sense which amounted to genius that the spoken word was going to be of more significance than the written word during the twentieth century. In a field dense with lengthy tomes, this brief, penetrating portrait provides a compelling introduction to a man whose evil continues to fascinate and appal.. How did he do it? Had Hitler been a regular politician, Wilson argues, he would have vanished without trace after his prison experience. In 1923, aged thirty -four, Hitler was languishing in prison after leading an unsuccessful putsch to overthrow the German Government. N. Wilson, Hitler is a short, sharp, gripping account of one of the twentieth century's most notorious figures In this brilliant short biography of Adolf Hitler, acclaimed historian A N Wilson offers a fresh interpretation of the life of the 'ultimate demon-tyrant of history'. In this respect, the Fuhrer is presented as a man ahead of his time, who foreshadowed
Absolutely the worst This is absolutely the worst biography I have ever read on Hitler. First of all, if you check the bibliography, I do not consider "Vanity Fair" articles a good historical source, he repeatedly sourced one article. Then he claims that Hitler was not a trench runner in WWI, I guess because it would give Hitler too much credit, after all, we all know that Hitler couldn't have done one good thing in his entire life. However the author then goes on to state that Hitler enjoyed killing rats with his English terrier. So did Hitler decide that the trenches were a good vacation spot? . Joseph M. Papp said Breathtaking in its banality; riddled with factual errors. To echo Richard J. Evans, author of The Third Reich at War, in his critique of Hitler: "It's hard to think why a publishing house that once had a respected history list agreed to produce this travesty of a biography. Perhaps the combination of a well-known author and a marketable subject was too tempting for cynical executives to resist. Novelists (notably Mann) and literary scholars (such as J P Stern) have sometimes managed to use a novel angle of approach to say something new and provocative about Hitler, the Nazis and the German people. However, there is no evidence of th. "Really excellent in some parts, but biased and riddled with old lies" according to Dimitrios. Mr Wilson has written a very interesting short biography of Hitler which has many merits but also some weak points. The quality of the writing is excellent and the largely unknown details of Hitler's life keep the reader fixed all the time.Wilson can be both amazingly objective, but also very biased sometimes. While in some cases he tries to defame Hitler and he repeats monstrous lies like that of the "six million Jews who were killed in the Holocaust", or that Hitler had the intent to exterminate all European Jewry and not just expel it from the continent (lies that have bee
A. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. . Wilson was born in Staffordshire and educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. He lives in London. He is a prolific and award-winning biographer and celebrated novelist. N. His most recent novel, Winnie and Wolf, was longlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize
N. Wilson goes straight to the essentials to explain what made the Fuhrer the phenomenon he was. In a book written with verve, insight, and imagination, he gives us a fresh look at Hitler. He seems to understand Hitler's character in a way many historians never could.' Mail on Sunday . a stimulating triumph of the mind' Sunday Express 'brims with the author's customary zip and zing' The Spectator 'Wilson!brings a witty, novelist's insight into what made Hitler tick. N. His conclusions make fascinating, if occasionally uncomfortable, reading even two-thirds of a century after Hitler's death.' --Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War: A New History of