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Hitler : A Study in Tyranny (Hardcover)

by Alan Bullock (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 848 pages
  • Publisher: William S. Konecky Associates, Incorporated; Reissue edition (1999)
  • ISBN-10: 1568520360
  • ISBN-13: 978-1568520360
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars A superbly researched and highly readable biography., 4 Jul 1999
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This review is from: Hitler: A Study in Tyranny (Paperback)
Bullock's achievement is one of demystiftying Hitler. One by one, the onion-skin layers of Hitler mythology are stripped away. Simple demonization makes way for an intelligent character study of a massively complex character, and simplistic Neo-Nazi whitewash is debunked.

Hitler was a political genius who skillfully outwitted the powers of Europe, and on the other hand, a moral and intellectual cretin who needlessly drove his country and most of Europe to destruction through his ugly egotism and strident nationalism. In The Holocaust Hitler prepetrated a crime unparalleled in history, and yet, until the end continued to believe that he had been wronged and that history would vindicate him.

Bullock brings out these contradictions in a detailed and intelligent biography, which takes us from the beer-halls of Munich, to a shallow grave at the Fuhrerbunker in exquisite detail. A meisterwerk.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Good introduction for anyone new to Nazi/Hitler studies., 27 Feb 2008
By Franz Bieberkopf (Liverpool,GB) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hitler: A Study in Tyranny (Leaders of Our Time) (Hardcover)
The original edition of this book was published in 1952,just seven years after Hitler's suicide in the Berlin bunker.What is astonishing is that it has stood the test of time and is still one of the best Hitler biographies around.
It is not a history of Nazi Germany,and so some topics that you may have expected to be covered in depth(the Holocaust,for example)are skimmed over in favour of the life and times of Hitler.
I would recommend,for new readers,reading the middle chapter first.This is an attempt to sum up his personality-the man,rather than the history maker.It's judgements are so well put("Pity and mercy he regarded as humanitarian claptrap")that it will set you up for the chronological chapters that precede and follow it.
Even though there are now veritable libraries of works about both Hitler and the Nazi era published since this(only four years after the Nuremberg trials,remember),Bullock's book holds up remarkably well,except for it's smoewhat slender bibliography.
if you want to dig deeper,try the 1970s biography by Joachim Fest,or the 1990s two-volume Ian Kershaw effort.
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6 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Surely the definitive work on this subject, 10 Nov 2000
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World War 2 was such a horrific experience, bringing with it an unprecedented series of atrocities, that it is hard to imagine that a book about one of its main perpetrators could be a good read. Yet this really excellent work manages it. The depth of its detail and research is breathtaking, yet the writing presents the material in a highly readable manner. Thoroughly recommended.
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