Hitler : a biography /

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Author / Creator:Kershaw, Ian.
Edition:1st American ed., [New ed.].
Imprint:New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2008.
Description:xli, 1029 p., [80] p. of plates : ill., maps, plans ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7409276
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ISBN:9780393067576 (hardcover)
0393067572 (hardcover)
Notes:An abridgement of "Hitler", originally published in two volumes in 1998 (American ed. 1999) and 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 971-974) and index.
Summary: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.
Table of 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.