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A brilliant and deeply resonant exploration of Hitler's reading habits; a unique exploration of his life; and a landmark in the study of the Third Reich. He was, of course, a man better known for burning books than collecting them and yet by the time he died, aged 56, Adolf Hitler owned an estimated 16,000 volumes - the works of historians, philosophers, poets, playwrights and novelists. For the first time, Timothy W. Ryback offers a systematic examination of this remarkable collection. The volumes in Hitler's library are fascinating in themselves but it is the marginalia - the comments, the exclamation marks, the questions and underlinings - even the dirty thumbprints on the pages of a book he read in the trenches of the First World War - which are so revealing. Hitler's Private Library provides us with a remarkable view of Hitler's evolution - and unparalleled insights into his emotional and intellectual world. Utterly compelling, it is also a landmark in our understanding of the Third Reich.

About the Author :
Timothy W. Ryback is the author of The Last Survivor- Legacies of Dachau, a New York Times Notable Book for 1999, and he has written for The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. He is the co-founder of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague and the Deputy-Secretary General of the Academie Diplomatique Internationale in Paris, where he currently lives.

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Elegantly written, meticulously researched, fascinating Lively and entertaining survey of the dictator's reading ... a wealth of fascinating detail Enlightening Ryback has made an original and interesting contribution to the study of this monster, not least by showing that, in some respects, he was just like many of the rest of us Ryback's...volume is unique in its focus on a limited number of books and in the forensic attention he lavishes on them the nicely observed snapshots of his private life in which books played so big a part make this biblio-biography far more interesting than it looked when I first picked it up Ryback has been able to draw a portrait of Hilter the reader, meticulous, critical and compulsive. A fine analysis of the reading habits of a man whom the historian Ian Kershaw has called 'one of the most impenetrable personalities of modern history A fascinating exercise in historical deconstruction Thoughtful and oddly intimate book


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780099532170
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Vintage
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 328 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0099532174
  • Publisher Date: 04 Feb 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: The Books that Shaped his Life
  • Width: 129 mm


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