Hitler

A major new biography—an extraordinary, penetrating study of the man who has become the personification of evil.
"Ullrich reveals Hitler to have been an eminently practical politician—and frighteningly so. Timely... One of the best works on Hitler and the origins of the Third Reich to appear in recent years."
—Kirkus Reviews
"An outstanding study... All the huge, and terrible moments of the early Nazi era are dissected...but the real strength of this book is in disentangling the personal story of man and monster."
—The Guardian (U.K.)

For all the literature about Adolf Hitler there have been just four seminal biographies; this is the fifth, a landmark work that sheds important new light on Hitler himself. Drawing on previously unseen papers and a wealth of recent scholarly research, Volker Ullrich reveals the man behind the public persona, from Hitler's childhood to his failures as a young man in Vienna to...