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Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography Paperback - 1991

by John Toland

Based on previously unpublished documents, diaries, notes, photographs, and dramatic interviews with Hitler's colleagues and associates, this is the definitive biography of one of the most despised yet fascinating figures of the 20th century. Toland won the Pulitzer Prize in 1971 for The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945. 150 photographs; 3 maps.


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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian John Toland's classic, definitive biography of Adolf Hitler remains the most thorough, readable, accessible, and, as much as possible, objective account of the life of a man whose evil effect on the world in the twentieth century will always be felt. Toland's research provided one of the final opportunities for a historian to conduct personal interviews with over two hundred individuals intimately associated with Hitler. At a certain distance yet still with access to many of the people who enabled and who opposed the fhrer and his Third Reich, Toland strove to treat this life as if Hitler lived and died a hundred years before instead of within his own memory. From childhood and obscurity to his desperate end, Adolf Hitler emerges as, in Toland's words, "far more complex and contradictory . . . obsessed by his dream of cleansing Europe Jews . . . a hybrid of Prometheus and Lucifer."

First line

Hitler rarely talked about his family but to a few confidants he did confess an inability to get along with his father, a dictatorial man.

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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... a marvel of fact."--"Newsweek

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  • Title Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography
  • Author John Toland
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 1120
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Anchor Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date December 1, 1991
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780385420532 / 0385420536
  • Weight 2.35 lbs (1.07 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.16 x 6.06 x 1.9 in (23.27 x 15.39 x 4.83 cm)
  • Reading level 1170
  • Library of Congress subjects Hitler, Adolf, Heads of state - Germany - Biography
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91031242
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

Media reviews

“The first book that anyone who wants to learn about Hitler or [World War II] in Europe must read. . . . A marvel.” —Newsweek

“Toland weaves the epic tapestry of popular history, meshing together thousands of details into monumental narratives of wartime drama.” —Chicago Tribune

“An unusually revealing picture . . . highly detailed . . . marvelously absorbing  . . . must be ranked as one of the most complete pictures of Hitler.” —The New York Times

“A significant contribution.” —Houston Chronicle

About the author

John Toland, the author of fifteen works of history and fiction, including Infamy: World War II and Its Aftermath, received the Pulitzer Prize for his magisterial Rising Sun: The Decline of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945. Mr. Toland died in 2004.

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