- Published: 1 April 2010
- ISBN: 9780099532170
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320
- RRP: $29.99
Hitler's Private Library
The Books that Shaped his Life
- Published: 1 April 2010
- ISBN: 9780099532170
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320
- RRP: $29.99
Elegantly written, meticulously researched, fascinating
Ian Kershaw
the nicely observed snapshots of his private life in which books played so big a part make this biblio-biography far more interesting than it looked when I first picked it up
Peter Lewis, The Oldie
Lively and entertaining survey of the dictator's reading ... a wealth of fascinating detail
Richard Overy, Sunday Telegraph
Enlightening
Clive Sinclair, Book of the Week, Independent
Ryback has made an original and interesting contribution to the study of this monster, not least by showing that, in some respects, he was just like many of the rest of us
Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph
Ryback's...volume is unique in its focus on a limited number of books and in the forensic attention he lavishes on them
Bertrand Benoit, Financial Times Review
Ryback has been able to draw a portrait of Hilter the reader, meticulous, critical and compulsive.
Alberto Manguel, Spectator
A fine analysis of the reading habits of a man whom the historian Ian Kershaw has called 'one of the most impenetrable personalities of modern history
Sunday Telegraph Magazine
A fascinating exercise in historical deconstruction
Simon Shaw, Mail on Sunday
Thoughtful and oddly intimate book
Mark Mazower, The Guardian
Ryback has created an intelligent companion to the countless existing biographies of Hitler
George Pendles, Financial Times, History books of the year
This fascinating study offers a chilling insight into the mind that conceived such unspeakable horrors.
Brian Maye, Irish Times