Title:
Hitler : a biography / Ian Kershaw.
Author:
Kershaw, Ian.
Publication Information:
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2010.
Call Number:
DD247.H5 K4622 2010
Abstract:
A single-volume edition of a classic biographical work traces Hitler's life and addresses key questions about the nature of Nazi radicalism, the Holocaust, and the factors that enabled European society to permit his atrocities.
Electronic Access:
Table of contents only http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0826/2008037294.html
Edition:
1st American ed.
ISBN:
9780393337617
Physical Description:
xli, 1030 p., [80] p. of plates : ill., maps, plans ; 24 cm.
General Note:
This one-volume abridgement with a new preface originally published in Great Britain 2008. First American Edition 2008.
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Contents:
Fantasy and failure -- Drop-out -- Elation and embitterment -- The beerhall agitator -- The 'drummer' -- Emergence of the leader -- Mastery over the movement -- Breakthrough -- Levered into power -- The making of the dictator -- Securing total power -- Working towards the Führer -- Ceaseless radicalization -- The drive for expansion -- Marks of a genocidal mentality -- Going for broke -- Licensing barbarism -- Zenith of power -- Designing a 'war of annihilation' -- Showdown -- Fulfilling the 'prophecy' -- Last big throw of the dice -- Beleaguered -- Hoping for miracles -- Luck of the devil -- No way out -- Into the abyss -- Extinction.
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