A landmark biography that explores the uncharted territory of Hitler the human being.
Volker Ullrich is a historian and journalist whose previous books include biographies of Bismarck and Napoleon, as well as a major study of Imperial Germany, The Nervous Superpower 1871-1918. From 1990 to 2009, Ullrich was the editor of the 'Political Book' review section of the influential weekly newspaper, Die Zeit. On publication in Germany in 2013, Hitler- Ascent 1889-1939 became a top ten bestseller.
Everyone concerned about democracy should read this book.
*The Nation*
A superb biography of the Führer’s pre-war years… It is a tribute
to Ullrich’s absorbing biography that one contemplates its second
volume with a shudder.
*Daily Telegraph*
[A] fascinating Shakespearean parable about how the confluence of
circumstances, chance, a ruthless individual and the wilful
blindness of others can transform a country.
*New York Times*
A substantial addition to the Fuhrer canon.
*The Times, Book of the Year*
Where Ullrich adds greatly to our understanding is by making the
mercurial, changeable and…profoundly unknowable Hitler believable…
This is a major achievement… Impressive and revealing
biography.
*Literary Review*
An eye-opening and enlightening re-examination of the life of the
German dictator… As well written as it is informative, this moves
the debate on Hitler to a new level.
*BBC History Magazine, Book of the Year*
If Ullrich’s picture fails to present the Führer as a man of depth,
it succeeds brilliantly – and so requires to be read as widely as
possible – in capturing the instinctive populist.
*The Times*
In a most impressive and massive account, [Volker Ullrich] adds
telling details and subtle nuances to the dictator’s portrait and
provides a fresh perspective on his rise. The result is a must-read
book that is bound to be a critical and commercial success.
*Times Higher Education*
[Ullrich] does not go out of his way to belittle his subject and
the vulnerabilities he calmly exposes heighten the power of this
extraordinary portrait.
*Sunday Telegraph*
I would stipulate emphatically that Trump is not Hitler and the
American Republic is not Weimar… Nonetheless there are sufficient
areas of similarity in some regards to make the book chilling and
insightful reading about not just the past but also the present… If
we can still effectively protect American democracy from
dictatorship, then certainly one lesson from the study of the
demise of Weimar and the ascent of Hitler is how important it is to
do it early
*New York Review of Books*
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