Even for one who thinks that he or she already knows everything there is to know about hitler, this book remains a fascinating biography. John toland, the author of the last hundred days and the pulitzer prizewinning the rising sun. A national bestseller with more than 370,000 copies in print, this is the first book that anyone who wants to learn about hitler or the war in europe must read newsweek. Something of an intellectual renegade in his later years, he managed to stay beneath the radar screen of controversy. The book started when hitler was born to a crowd of antisemitism believers. Toland s research provided one of the final opportunities for a historian to conduct personal interviews with. A biography of adolf hitler, based in part on more than one hundred and fifty interviews with people directly involved with his life. The decline and fall of the japanese empire, 19361945, adds his latest book, adolf hitler, to the.
Toland s research provided one of the final opportunities for a historian to conduct personal. Adolf hitler was born on april 20, 1889 at braunau am inn, austria, a small town in upper austria, on the border with germany. Mar 10, 2017 heinz linge worked with adolf hitler for a tenyear period from 1935 until the fuhrers death in the berlin bunker in may 1945. The definitive biography ebook written by john toland. He was the third son and the fourth of six children of alois hitler born schicklgruber 18371903, a minor customs official, and klara polzl 18601907, his second cousin, and third wife. Dirigibles were the subject of his first fulllength published book, ships in the sky 1957.
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