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Hitler
1889-1936 Hubris
by Ian Kershaw
ISBN: 0393046710
ISBN-13: 9780393046717
Format: Hardcover
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This biography of Adolph Hitler focuses on his rise to power and examines the social forces in Germany that made that ascent possible. This first part of a two-part biography ends in 1936. A New York Times Notable Book of 1999.
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"In a Wagnerian-length study...Ian Kershaw, the distinguished British historian, seeks to sweep away the distortions, half-truths and myths that still becloud our understanding of the dictator's extraordinary career. He also tries to explain how such a secretive, friendless, cruel person could win the hearts of a majority of the German people....Mr. Kershaw's biography provides the most astute assessment of Hitler's bond with the German people yet written. Only now and then does the Fuhrer fade from view, standing just off-stage - remote, hate-ridden, still mysterious." -- Evan Burr Bukey
-- Wall Street Journal
"...undoubtedly the most complete historical account of Hitler's life up to 1936....not a disquisition about charisma, but rather a political biography that describes, step by step, Hitler's ascent to power and his exercise of power until 1936....it keeps reminding the reader of Hitler's two faces: the crafty political tactician on the one hand, the fanatical ideologist, possessed by a quasi-messianic sense of mission, on the other." -- Saul Friedlander
-- Times Literary Supplement
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Published date: 1999
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 6.5 x 10 inches
Weight: 2.85 pounds
Pages: 845
Publisher's Notes
The most powerful account of Hitler's domination of the German people through fanaticism, divisiveness, and luck. 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 seizure of power in 1933 and then mounted in brutal attacks by his storm troopers on Jews and others condemned as enemies of the Aryan race. In an account drawing on many previously untapped sources, Hitler metamorphoses from an obscure fantasist, a "drummer" sounding an insistent beat of hatred in Munich beer halls, to the instigator of an infamous failed putsch and, ultimately, to the leadership of a ragtag alliance of right-wing parties fused into a movement that enthralled the German people. This volume, the first of two, ends with the promulgation of the infamous Nuremberg laws that pushed German Jews to the outer fringes of society, and with the march of the German army into the Rhineland, Hitler's initial move toward the abyss of war.
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New York, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1999. Later Printing. Hardcover. Good+/Good+. Light rubbing and edge wear to jacket. Damp staining along lower inside edge of jacket front. Bumping and creasing to spine. Bumping to corners. Faint rippling along right edge of first few pages. ISBN: 0393046710. ( more information)
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W. W. Norton & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 0393046710 . DJ has some edgewear around the extrems. Book spine has creases running down it, previous owners signature on ffep; otherwise, it is clean and pristine. Binding is tight. Pasadena's premier independent new and used bookstore. Germany; 1.75 x 9.58 x 6.52 Inches; 845 pages; The most powerful account of Hitler's domination of the German people through fanaticism, divisiveness, and luck. 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 seizure of power in 1933 and then mounted in brutal attacks by his storm troopers on Jews and others condemned as enemies of the Aryan race. In an account drawing on many previously untapped sources, Hitler metamorphoses from an obscure fantasist, a "drummer" sounding an insistent beat of hatred in Munich beer halls, to the instigator of an infamous failed putsch and, ultimately, to the leadership of a ragtag alliance of right-wing parties fused into a movement that enthralled the German people. This volume, the first of two, ends with the promulgation of the infamous Nuremberg laws that pushed German Jews to the outer fringes of society, and with the march of the German army into the Rhineland, Hitler's initial move toward the abyss of war. . ( more information)
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Kershaw, Ian
New York, NY, U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1999. New York, NY. W. W. Norton & Company. 1999. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 845pp., index, bibliography. Very Good/Very Good. Black boards with gilt title. A clean, tight and unmarked copy in like unpriced dust jacket. From his 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.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information)
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Kershaw, Ian
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Very Fine/Very Fine DJ,not price clipped.NO defects. photos,maps Adolf Hitler W.W.Norton 1999 BCE hardcover. 8vo, 845 pages., 1st edition,1st printing USA stated. NO names or ANY markings. No price at DJ flap. A History BCE. (NOT a BoMC). ( more information)
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Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris
Ian Kershaw
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Kershaw, Ian
W. W. Norton & Company. Hardcover. 0393046710 First American edition 1999, First printing! The book is almost as new - clean, tight and unmarked with only minor wear on the dust jacket and edges of cover. Apparently lightly read copy in great condition. No remainder marks, price clips or other imperfections. . Very Good. ( more information)
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Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris
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Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: W W Norton & Co Inc. As New in As New dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; Fourth Printing. Hard Cover. 1999 stated first American edition, fourth partial cloth hardcover and dust jacket in excellent condition. Protective mylar cover. . ( more information)
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Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris
Kershaw, Ian
good, good W. W. Norton New York 1999 First American First 25 cm, 845, illus., references, notes, index, DJ somewhat worn, soiled, and creased, slight weakness to front hinge The events which allowed a misfit to climb to the leadership of Germany. As Hitler's fantasy of being Germany's savior attracted support, the author conveys why many Germans adored him or felt powerless to resist. ( more information)
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Hitler: 1889 - 1936: Hubris
Kershaw Ian
NY: W W Norton & Company, 1998 shelf wear to book and jacket. Trade edition, scarce in this state. A very well received new biography of Hitler which has been predicted to become the new standard work. Much less than common than its companion volume Nemesis, covering the years 1936-45.. First U.S.. Hard Cover. VG/VG. ( more information)
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Hitler Hubris and Nemesis 1889 1945 2 Vols
Kershaw, Ian
New York: W. W. Norton, 1999 Two volumes with the first covering 1889 to 1936, 2nd printing VG+ and dj VG. The second volume 1st printing fine and dj NF. First volume published 1999 and the second 2000. . First Edition. VG+/VG+. ( more information)
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Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris
Kershaw, Ian
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999. Hardcover First Edition As New Hardcover copy in Fine/Fine condition; Book 1 of 2 chronicles Hitler's life from birth to the historic Nuremberg laws; Fascinating book which includes some b&w images; heavy item-may cost additional postage to send ( more information)
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Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris & Hitler: 1936-1945 Nemesis
Kershaw, Ian, Bar (Preface by)
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1999 & 2000 - W.W. Norton 1st Editions (Volume 1 is 3rd printing, Volume II is 1st Printing ). Hardcovers. Complete 2-Volume set covers Hitler's life from 1889 to 1945. Volume I entitled, Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris (ISBN 0393046710) ; Volume II entitled, Hitler: 1936-1945 Nemesis (ISBN 0393049949). Profusely illustrated, End Notes, Bibliography, Index; 1,956 pages. Both books are in Like New Condition in Like New Condition DJs in Mylar Protectors. NO REMAINDER MARK; NOT X-LIBRARY. Items normally on their way to you within one business day. ( more information)
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