Hitler 1889-1936
  • Published: 25 October 2001
  • ISBN: 9780140133639
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 880
  • RRP: $55.00
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Ian Kershaw's HITLER allows us to come closer than ever before to a serious understanding of the man and of the catastrophic sequence of events which allowed a bizarre misfit to climb from a Viennese dosshouse to leadership of one of Europe's most sophisticated countries. With extraordinary skill and vividness, drawing on a huge range of sources, Kershaw recreates the world which first thwarted and then nurtured the young Hitler. As his seemingly pitiful fantasy of being Germany's saviour attracted more and more support, Kershaw brilliantly conveys why so many Germans adored Hitler, connived with him or felt powerless to resist him.
  • Published: 25 October 2001
  • ISBN: 9780140133639
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 880
  • RRP: $55.00
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About the author

Ian Kershaw

Ian Kershaw is Professor of Modern history at the University of Sheffield. For services to history he was given the German award of the Federal Cross of Merit in 1994. he was knighted in 2002 and awarded the Norton Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2004.
He was historical advisor to three BBC series: The Nazis: A Warning From History, War of the Century and Auschwitz.
His most recent books are Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris and 1936-1945: Nemesis, which received the Wolfson Literary Award for History and the Bruno Kreisky Prize in Austria for the Political Book of the Year, and was joint winner of the inaugural British Academy Book Prize; Making Friends with hitler: Lord Londonberry and Britain's Road to War, which won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography in 2005; and, most recently, Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941.

Also by Ian Kershaw

Personality and Power
Roller-Coaster
To Hell and Back
Luck of the Devil
Making Friends with Hitler
The End
Hitler
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Praise for Hitler 1889-1936

Supersedes all previous accounts. It is the sort of masterly biography that only a first-rate historian can write

David Cannadine, Observer Books of the Year

The Hitler biography for the 21st century ... cool, judicious, factually reliable and intelligently argued ... Kershaw triumphantly succeeds in showing that Hitler's rise to supreme power depended not just on his own talents, nor on the nature of German society, but on the interaction of the two

Richard Evans, Sunday Telegraph

One of the major historical biographies of our times ... Kershaw has written a dazzlingly lucid interpretation of the central dynamics of the Nazi regime which draws on a wide new range of sources and expertly manages a huge cast of accomplices ... a riveting read

Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times, Best Biographies of the Year

His analysis of Hitler's extraordinary character has the fascination of a novel, but he places his struggle and rise in the context of meticulously researched history ... Deeply disturbing. Unforgettable

A.N. Wilson, Daily Mail

A sane, erudite, moral and intellectually honest biography of the 20th century's most destructive politician. Every page is focused on the historical question we would prefer to forget: how did it happen?

Ruth Scurr, The Times

This new biography is of profound importance and will ... quickly establish itself as the standard work on Hitler and his regime

Thomas Childers, Boston Globe