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HITLERS PRIVATE LIBRARY IBD

VINTAGE
02 / 2010
9780099532170
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Sinopsis

He was of course a man better known for burning books than collecting them and yet by the time he died aged 56 Adolf Hitler owned an estimated 16 000 volumes - the works of historians philosophers poets playwrights and novelists. For the first time Timothy W. Ryback offers a systematic examination of this remarkable collection. The volumes in Hitler?s library are fascinating in themselves but it is the marginalia - the comments the exclamation marks the questions and underlinings - even the dirty thumbprints on the pages of a book he read in the trenches of the First World War - which are so revealing.Hitler?s Private Library provides us with a remarkable view of Hitler?s evolution - and unparalleled insights into his emotional and intellectual world. Utterly compelling it is also a landmark in our understanding of the Third Reich.