Hitler: ascent 1889-1939 (Vol. 1) Ullrich, Volker

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Ullrich, Volker

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TextPublication details: The Bodley Head 2016 LondonDescription: x, 998 p. Vol. 1: AscentISBN:

9781847922861

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943.086092 U5H4

Summary: Despite his status as the most despised political figure in history, there have only been four serious biographies of Hitler since the 1930s. Even more surprisingly, his biographers have been more interested in his rise to power and his methods of leadership than in Hitler the person: some have even declared that the Führer had no private life. Yet to render Hitler as a political animal with no personality to speak of, as a man of limited intelligence and poor social skills, fails to explain the spell that he cast not only on those close to him but on the German people as a whole. In the first volume of this monumental biography, Volker Ullrich sets out to correct our perception of the Führer. While charting in detail Hitler’s life from his childhood to the eve of the Second World War against the politics of the times, Ullrich unveils the man behind the public persona: his charming and repulsive traits, his talents and weaknesses, his deep-seated insecurities and murderous passions. Drawing on a wealth of previously neglected or unavailable sources, this magisterial study provides the most rounded portrait of Hitler to date. Ullrich renders the Führer not as a psychopath but as a master of seduction and guile — and it is perhaps the complexity of his character that explains his enigmatic grip on the German people more convincingly than the clichéd image of the monster. Translator: Chase, Jefferson https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1097959/hitler/

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Table of content

1. The Young Hitler
2. The Vienna Years
3. The Experience of War
4. The leap in to Politics
5. The King of Munich
6. Putsch and Prosecution
7. Lindbergh prison and Mein Kampf
8. Fihrer on standby
9. Dark star Rising
10. Hitler and Women
11. Bids and Bluffs
12. Month of Destiny: Jan. 1933
13. Hitler as human being
14. Totalitarian Revolution
15. Eviscerating Versailles
16. Cult and community
17. Dictatorship by Divison, Architecture of Intimidation
18. The berghof society and the Fihrer’s mistress
19. Hitler and the Churches
20. Prelude to Genocide
21. The way to war
22. Notes
23. Bibliography
24. Acknowledgements
25. Index

Despite his status as the most despised political figure in history, there have only been four serious biographies of Hitler since the 1930s. Even more surprisingly, his biographers have been more interested in his rise to power and his methods of leadership than in Hitler the person: some have even declared that the Führer had no private life.
Yet to render Hitler as a political animal with no personality to speak of, as a man of limited intelligence and poor social skills, fails to explain the spell that he cast not only on those close to him but on the German people as a whole. In the first volume of this monumental biography, Volker Ullrich sets out to correct our perception of the Führer. While charting in detail Hitler’s life from his childhood to the eve of the Second World War against the politics of the times, Ullrich unveils the man behind the public persona: his charming and repulsive traits, his talents and weaknesses, his deep-seated insecurities and murderous passions.
Drawing on a wealth of previously neglected or unavailable sources, this magisterial study provides the most rounded portrait of Hitler to date. Ullrich renders the Führer not as a psychopath but as a master of seduction and guile — and it is perhaps the complexity of his character that explains his enigmatic grip on the German people more convincingly than the clichéd image of the monster.

Translator: Chase, Jefferson

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1097959/hitler/

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