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Hitler Vol. 1: 1889–1936: Hubris by Ian Kershaw is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Hailed as the most compelling biography of the German dictator yet written, Ian Kershaw’s Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the heart of its subject’s immense darkness. From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Reich chancellery in Berlin, Adolf Hitler left a murky trail, strewn with contradictory tales and overgrown with self-created myths. One truth prevails: the sheer scale of the evils that he unleashed on the world has made him a demonic figure without equal in this century. Ian Kershaw’s Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the character of the bizarre misfit in his thirty-year ascent from a Viennese shelter for the indigent to uncontested rule over the German nation that had tried and rejected democracy in the crippling aftermath of World War I. With extraordinary vividness, Kershaw recreates the settings that made Hitler’s rise possible: the virulent anti-Semitism of prewar Vienna, the crucible of a war with immense casualties, the toxic nationalism that gripped Bavaria in the 1920s, the undermining of the Weimar Republic by extremists of the Right and the Left, the hysteria that accompanied Hitler’s se

Who reads Hitler Vol. 1: 1889–1936: Hubris?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Ian Kershaw
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Published
1998
Language
EN
ISBN
9780140288988
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
History, Biography, Historical Fiction
Rating
4.35 / 5 (113 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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