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  • Published: 3 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141035888
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 1072
  • RRP: $42.99
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Hitler

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The phenomenal bestselling biography, now for the first time in a single-volume paperback

Now at last in a single, abridged paperback - the definitive life.

Ian Kershaw's two-volume biography of Hitler was greeted with universal acclaim as the essential work on one of the most malign figures in history. Now this landmark biography is available in one single, abridged edition, tracing the story of how a bitter, failed art student from an obscure corner of Austria rose to unparalleled power, destroying the lives of millions and unleashing Armageddon.
  • Published: 3 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141035888
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 1072
  • RRP: $42.99
Categories:

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
Fateful Choices
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Praise for Hitler

Mesmerizing ... presents the twentieth century's most controversial life in a single sweep

Michael Kerrigan, Scotsman

An achievement of the very highest order

Michael Burleigh, Financial Times

The definitive biography of the Führer

Juliet Gardiner, Sunday Times

For the present generation, Kershaw's Hitler stands out as a clear beacon of truth, illuminating a dark age of terror and mendacity

Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday

Magisterial ... anyone who wishes to understand the Third Reich must read Kershaw, for no one has done more to lay bare Hitler's morbid psyche

Niall Ferguson, Sunday Telegraph

I cannot imagine a better biography of this great tyrant emerging for a long while

Jeremy Paxman

The Hitler biography for the twenty-first century

Richard Evans, Sunday Telegraph

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

David Cannadine, Observer
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