Kershaw's awaited Hitler biography FINAL Edition
He was Nature's twisted masterpiece. In a life of 56 years, millions adored him with a fervor worthy of the gods. When, finally, he plunged from pinnacle to perdition, more millions cursed his name as a symbol of pestilence. In all of history, there never was a man like Adolf Hitler. There have...
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| Published in | The Sun (Baltimore, Md. : 1837) |
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| Format | Newspaper Article |
| Language | English |
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Baltimore, Md
Tribune Publishing Company, LLC
10.01.1999
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| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | He was Nature's twisted masterpiece. In a life of 56 years, millions adored him with a fervor worthy of the gods. When, finally, he plunged from pinnacle to perdition, more millions cursed his name as a symbol of pestilence. In all of history, there never was a man like Adolf Hitler. There have been tyrants of equal power, such as Stalin and Mao, but none combined the same measure of spellbinding oratory, political cunning and genocidal obsession. And no one rivaled his uncanny ability to seize the yearnings of a defeated and humiliated nation and harness them to his own vengeful dreams. In the quest of the definitive explanation of the Hitler phenomenon, Ian Kershaw's prodigious work is an eminently worthy contender. Kershaw, a professor of modern history at the University of Sheffield, England, traces Hitler's life from his humble birth to his triumphal march into the demilitarized zone of the Rhineland as a timid France looked on. |
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| ISSN: | 1930-8965 |