Overview
- Summary
- A rigorous narrative analysis probes into the childhood, war experiences, and early political career of Adolf Hitler to assess how his defining years affected his rise to power.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Pegasus Books, 2018
©2018 - Locale
- Germany
- Edition
- First Pegasus Books hardcover edition
- Contents
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Prologue: A little context...
"At the time I thought everything should be blown up"
"At home I do not remember having heard the word Jew"
"I had honoured my father, but my mother I had loved"
"The whole academy should be dynamited"
"Is this a German?"
"I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven"
"I passionately loved soldiering"
"Louvain was a heap of rubble"
"I was right out in front, ahead of everyone"
"You will hear much more about me"
"At last my will was undisputed master"
"For the last time the Lord's grace smiled on His ungrateful children"
"Since the day I stood at my mother's grave, I had not wept"
"What was all the pain in my eyes compared to this misery?"
"I could speak!"
"The movement was on the march"
"The world of the woman is the man"
"You must fight with me
or die with me!"
"If fifteen thousand of these Hebrew corrupters had been held under poison gas..."
Epilogue: The making of the Führer
Appendix: The German National Socialist "25-point programme." - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-290) and index.
Prologue: A little context... -- "At the time I thought everything should be blown up" -- "At home I do not remember having heard the word Jew" -- "I had honoured my father, but my mother I had loved" -- "The whole academy should be dynamited" -- "Is this a German?" -- "I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven" -- "I passionately loved soldiering" -- "Louvain was a heap of rubble" -- "I was right out in front, ahead of everyone" -- "You will hear much more about me" -- "At last my will was undisputed master" -- "For the last time the Lord's grace smiled on His ungrateful children" -- "Since the day I stood at my mother's grave, I had not wept" -- "What was all the pain in my eyes compared to this misery?" -- "I could speak!" -- "The movement was on the march" -- "The world of the woman is the man" -- "You must fight with me -- or die with me!" -- "If fifteen thousand of these Hebrew corrupters had been held under poison gas..." -- Epilogue: The making of the Führer -- Appendix: The German National Socialist "25-point programme."
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 1681777479
9781681777474 - Physical Description
- 308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- Heads of state--Germany--Biography. National socialism. Germany--Politics and government--1918-1933. Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State. HISTORY / Europe / Germany. HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. Heads of state. Politics and government. Germany. Nonfiction. Biographies. Biography. Hitler, Adolf,--1889-1945. Hitler, Adolf,--1889-1945--Childhood and youth. Hitler, Adolf--1889-1945 Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei.
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