Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Ryback, Timothy W.

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2024

Beschreibung

As new condition red boards, black spine, and silver spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Timothy W. Ryback; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote by Dorothy Thompson, "I Saw Hitler!", January 1932; Postscript; Acknowledgments; A Note on Sources; Notes; Index; Illustration Credits and A Note About the Author. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates. "From the internationally accllaimed author of Hitler's Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler assumed power, when the Nazi leader teetered between tiumph and ruin. In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse. One in three Germans was unemployed. Violence was rampant. Hitler's National Socialists surged at the polls. Paul von Hindenburg, an aging war hero and avowed monarchist, was a reluctant president bound by oath to uphold the constitution. The November elections offered Hitler the prospect of a Reichstag majority and a path to political power. But instead, the Nazis lost two million votes. As membership hemorrhaged and financial backers withdrew, the Nazi Party threatened to fracture. Hitler talked of suicide. The New York Times declared he was finished. Yet somehow, in a few brief weeks, he was chancellor of Germany. In fascinating detail and with previously unaccessed archival materials, Timothy W. Ryback tells the remarkable story of Hitler's dismantling of democracy through the democratic process. He provides a fresh perspective and insights into Hitler's personal and professional lives in these months, in all their complexity and uncertainty - backroom deals, unlikely alliances, stunning betrayals, an ill-timed tax audit, and a fateful weekend that changed our world forever. Above all, Ryback makes clear why a wearied Hindenburg, who disdained the "Bohemian corporal," ultimately decided to appoint Hitler chancellor in January 1933. Within weeks, Germany was no longer a democracy." - from the inner front jacket flap. "How does a flawed republic become something entirely different? We know how the Nazi regime ended, but we think too little about how it began. This admirable account shows us how fragile and avoidable were those beginnings and helps us to reflect upon our own predicament." - Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny. "If you ever thought that history is moved only by big, sweeping forces, whether of economics or creed or nature itself, think again. In this riveting, intimate account of the final months in Hitler's rise to power, Timothy Ryback makes it plain that simple luck, bald ambition, and fallible human hearts can be drivers of earth-changing events." - Max Rodenbeck, Berlin bureau chief, The Economist.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
• Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• Einband: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Gall, John (jacket design)
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Druck: 1st Printing
• Zustand: As New
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New