The Hitler of History - Softcover

Lukacs, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375701133 ISBN 13: 9780375701139

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1998

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Book by Lukacs John

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By examining the more than one hundred biographies of Adolf Hitler and their authors, a historian reassesses the reality of Hitler's life and his place in the history of the twentieth century and of the world. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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able service . . . serious, entertaining, provocative and distinctive." --Cleveland Plain Dealer

In the fifty years since his suicide amid the ruins of Berlin, Adolf Hitler has been the subject of more biographies than any comparable figure of our time--and at the center of a crucial historical debate over the nature of evil and moral responsibility in the twentieth century. In this brilliant and original book, the historian John Lukacs climbs above the fray to produce a definitive "history of a history: the history of the evolution of our understanding of Hitler's life and our debates about its meaning."

Like an expert attorney, Lukacs puts the biographies on trial, identifying their strengths, weaknesses, and hidden agendas. And through their intersecting and conflicting accounts, he addresses the enduring enigmas surrounding the demiurge of the Third Reich. Was Hitler a revolutionary or a reactionary? How successful was he as a statesman and a strategist? W

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• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0375701133
• ISBN 13: 9780375701139
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304