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“Magisterial . . . anyone who wishes to understand the Third Reich must read Kershaw.”—Niall Ferguson“The Hitler biography of the twenty-first century” (Richard J. Evans), Ian Kershaw’s Hitler is a one-volume masterpiece that will become the standard work. From Hitler’s origins as a failed artist in fin-de-siecle Vienna to the terrifying last days in his Berlin bunker, Kershaw’s richly illustrated biography is a mesmerizing portrait of how Hitler attained, exercised, and retained power. Drawing on previously untapped sources, such as Goebbels’s diaries, Kershaw addresses the crucial questions about the unique nature of Nazi radicalism, about the Holocaust, and about the poisoned European world that allowed Hitler to operate so effectively. Some images in the ebook are not displayed owing to permissions issues.

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I've been reading about the Third Reich for most of my life, and this book stands out in a number of regards.First, it is an excellent biography. Kershaw depends on some key sources (August Kubizek's recollections; Goebbels's diaries; the memoirs and reports of Hitler's secretaries; Hitler's speeches) to craft a rise-and-fall tale worthy of the best Greek dramas or Shakespeare. I found myself being drawn into the life and thoughts of this awful protagonist, and we can see the story play out the way it did even if this anti-hero was totally incapable of doing so himself. Blind to his ever-increasing, unbounded hubris, Hitler created the conditions for his ultimate defeat, as Kershaw's account makes crystal clear, page after page.Second, it's a sound explanation of the Third Reich itself. Kershaw subscribes to the interpretation, which he repeats so often that it becomes a major theme, that everyone in the Third Reich was "working toward the Fuehrer." I found this a compelling explanation of how the Third Reich came to be, and how it operated. It's difficult for me to separate the Third Reich from Hitler, and this worked for me. I found this more convincing than the interpretation of Richard J. Evans, as demonstrated in "The Coming of the Third Reich," which works from a mirror viewpoint: that Hitler was a product of Germany in the 1930s. For some reason, I can't see the Third Reich without Hitler, and so Kershaw's thesis (not original, he admits, but consistently demonstrated throughout his book) made more sense to me. As Kershaw argues, a conservative, anti-Versailles, expansionist, and even mildly anti-semitic government may have come to Germany, but Hitler seemed uniquely ready to bring his paranoid, pathological, genocidal hatred to Germany and to the world. To understand how the war and the Holocaust happened, you have to understand Hitler.Third, Kershaw's explanations of various aspects of the regime encapsulate much about WWII in Europe that teach a lot. This book isn't just about Hitler's personal habits. The development of the Holocaust, the military successes and overwhelming failures, the strategies, and the foreign policy aspects, and the neglect of the home front are all related well here. Among the reasons for starting the disastrous Barbarossa campaign, Hitler hoped to force Britain to the peace table by eliminating its sole possible continental partner; the flawed logic of this and many other military decisions is well told, usually with fair-mindedness. I could quibble with some of Kershaw's technical details (were those really the right tank types in Kursk on the northern shoulder?), but on balance, the bigger picture is stark, terrible, and transcendent.If you've read Goebbels's diaries, or Speer's or von Manstein's memoirs, much of what's related in this regard will seem familiar. Yet, Kershaw takes a critical stance toward those authors, and is able to weave his own fresh narrative. He maintains a historian's distance toward his sources, but is also able to make very human judgments on the murderous, war-mongering regime. All that said, I found the last chapters not surprising, and if you've seen the movie "Downfall," you'll have the highlights of Hitler's last days, as much as we can know.Altogether, if I had to recommend one book on the 1939-1945 war in Europe, or on the Third Reich, or on Hitler, this would be it. Kershaw delivers on all 3 angles. I was riveted with every page, and the book held my attention all the way to the end.The Kindle edition is well edited, and as my understanding of this subject doesn't depend on maps, photos, or other images, the book translates well to the Kindle format. Also, while I would have loved to check the footnotes as I went along, they aren't in this edition.

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