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“Hitler seized the chance to form his derivative thoughts into a simplistically consistent ideology. Detailing the memoir’s composition, Range shows Hitler’s solidifying resolve to be Germany’s destined leader. Descriptive and portentous, Range’s is an excellent account of perhaps the critical period in the Hitler saga.”
— Booklist
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“Providing superb detail and background, 1924: The Year That Made Hitler focuses on the few months he actually served at Landsberg, during which he was treated royally rather than punitively. Freed from the daily demands of party politics, Hitler was able to put his thoughts on nationalism and strong-man governance into a book that would become the first volume of Mein Kampf—and the grand rationale for the murderous Third Reich.”
— BookPage
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“Range’s deep knowledge of the figures and events enables him to narrate clearly without being sucked into excessive explication. A lucid description of a year that made all the horror possible, even inevitable.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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This book could not be more necessary, as Germany prepares to re-publish Mein Kampf for the first time in 70 years. Range gives us a fluent narrative of Hitler's 13 months in prison, where he wrote his political testament. Eminently readable.
— Ronald Rosbottom, author of When Paris Went Dark
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How did it happen? That's the fateful question that veteran journalist Peter Ross Range asks. With verve, he takes us into the diabolical rise of Adolf Hitler in the pivotal year of 1924, by turns a horrifying yet important story.
— Jay Winik, author of 1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History and April 1865
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Descriptive and portentous, Range's is an excellent account of perhaps the critical period in the Hitler saga.
— Gilbert Taylor, Booklist
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Occasionally, a year draped in defeat becomes a year of personal triumph that alters the course of history. Peter Ross Range deftly argues that 1924 was such a year for Adolf Hitler, with catastrophic results for the world.
— Walter R. Borneman, author of The Admirals and MacArthur at War
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Range's deep knowledge of the figures and events enables him to narrate clearly without being sucked into excessive explication. A lucid description of a year that made all the horror possible, even inevitable.
— Kirkus Reviews
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Range deserves credit for brilliantly and concisely bringing this important slice of history to visibility.
— Bill Hughes, Baltimore Post-Examiner
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A lively account... Range tells his story well, offering choice details.
— Andrew Nagorski, Washington Post
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Range "let[s] this all-too-human but unique story tell itself... Successfully recreates the atmosphere of postwar Bavaria that helped to "make" Hitler, and charts the unprecedented impact this engineering, enigmatic figure was making.
— Anthony Mostrom, The Los Angeles Review of Books