| Edition |
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. |
| Description |
308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (273-290) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue: A little context... -- "At the time I thought everything should be blown up" -- "At home I do not remember having heard the word Jew" -- "I had honoured my father, but my mother I had loved" -- "The whole academy should be dynamited" -- "Is this a German?" -- "I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven" -- "I passionately loved soldiering" -- "Louvain was a heap of rubble" -- "I was right out in front, ahead of everyone" -- "You will hear much more about me" -- "At last my will was undisputed master" -- "For the last time the Lord's grace smiled on His ungrateful children" -- "Since the day I stood at my mother's grave, I had not wept" -- "What was all the pain in my eyes compared to this misery?" -- "I could speak!" -- "The movement was on the march" -- "The world of the woman is the man" -- "You must fight with me--or die with me!" -- "If fifteen thousand of these Hebrew corrupters had been held under poison gas..." -- Epilogue: The making of the Führer -- Appendix: The German National Socialist "25-point programme." |
| Summary |
A rigorous narrative analysis probes into the childhood, war experiences, and early political career of Adolf Hitler to assess how his defining years affected his rise to power. |
| Subject |
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
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Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Childhood and youth.
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Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei.
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Heads of state -- Germany -- Biography.
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National socialism.
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Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933.
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Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
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| Genre/Form |
Nonfiction.
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
1681777479 (hardcover) |
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9781681777474 (hardcover) |
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