A national bestseller with more than 370,000 copies in print, this is "the first book that anyone who wants to learn about Hitler or the war in Europe must read" (Newsweek).
Based on previously unpublished documents, diaries, notes, photographs, and dramatic interviews with Hitler's colleagues and associates, this is the definitive biography of one of the most despised yet fascinating figures of the twentieth century. Eminently readable and painstakingly documented, it is a work that will not soon be forgotten.
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“An unusually revealing picture…highly detailed…amarvelously absorbing popular history…must be ranked as one of the mostcomplete pictures of Hitler we have yet had.”
— New York Times
“The first book that anyone who wants to learn about Hitler or the war in Europe must read. Much that is new or little known…a marvel of fact.”
— Newsweek“Toland weaves the epic tapestry of popular history, meshing together thousands of details into monumental narratives of wartime drama.”
— Chicago Tribune“A significant contribution to the history of our time.”
— Houston Chronicle“Massive, masterful…should stand as a landmark in the literature of ideological megalomania.”
— San Francisco Chronicle“Thorough, carefully documented, and authoritative.”
— Library JournalJohn Toland (1912–2004) was an award-winning American author and one of the most widely read military historians of the twentieth century. His most well-known work is perhaps The Rising Sun, winner of the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the first book in English to tell the story of the Pacific War from the Japanese perspective. Although primarily an author of historical nonfiction, he also wrote novels, plays, and short stories. Among his published books were four New York Times bestsellers: But Not in Shame, The Last Hundred Days, Adolf Hitler, and Infamy.
Geoffrey Howard (a.k.a. Ralph Cosham) was a stage actor and an award-winning narrator. He recorded more than 100 audiobooks in his lifetime and won the prestigious Audio Award for Best Narration and several AudioFile Earphones Awards.