Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography

John Toland

Sep 2014 · Sold by Anchor

About this ebook

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian John Toland’s classic, definitive biography of Adolf Hitler remains the most thorough, readable, accessible, and, as much as possible, objective account of the life of a man whose evil affect on the world in the twentieth century will always be felt.

Toland’s research provided one of the final opportunities for a historian to conduct personal interviews with over two hundred individuals intimately associated with Hitler. At a certain distance yet still with access to many of the people who enabled and who opposed the führer and his Third Reich, Toland strove to treat this life as if Hitler lived and died a hundred years before instead of within his own memory. From childhood and obscurity to his desperate end, Adolf Hitler emerges , in Toland’s words, "far more complex and contradictory . . . obsessed by his dream of cleansing Europe Jews . . . a hybrid of Prometheus and Lucifer."

Ratings and reviews

I appreciate a good book. This is a good book from Start to Finish. It's fascinating to see how someone's idea can manifest to the point of insanity. But, ultimately this man's idea was never going to end well for him and for those that followed.

Adolf Hitler was an absolute lunatic. I have read many WWI and WWII books and how we have allowed another lunatic in office, is beyond me.

It was great when I read it on the return flight from Germany in 1979. Where you come up w/some of the copyright dates is beyond me. They are inaccurate. Still a great book.

About the author

John Toland, the author of fifteen works of history and fiction, including Infamy: Pearl HarborII and Its Aftermath, received the Pulitzer Prize for his magisterial Rising Sun: The Decline of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945. Mr. Toland died in 2004.