Adolf Hitler Volume 1

By John Toland

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000QA8KP6
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Doubleday & Company Inc.
• Length: 584 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Finally, John Toland takes on H-i-t-l-e-r.

There are H-i-t-l-e-r books by experts, conspiracy theorists, crackpots, and those who have strange agendas. We even have “Mein Kampf.” Everything one reads has a different view of the same man in the same history. John Toland is no different, as he has compiled what he considers the truth from actual people who knew H-i-t-l-e-r. This two-volume book (you may have a one-volume book) is professionally written and may give you a different insight into the workings of H-i-t-l-er-. Sometimes it has the feeling of a novel. If you are interested in part 2, “In the Beginning Was the Word,” chapter 6. “The Beer Hall Putsch”, which is about 33 pages long, then you might be interested in “Munich 1923” by John Dornberg.

Best biography of Hitler, bar none

I had the opportunity of corresponding and meeting John Toland when I was a teenager and he was a remarkable man and a great writer. This is by far the best and most readable biography ever written on Hitler. Toland eschews, thankfully, the ridiculous psycho-babble which ruins many other major Hitler biographies.Toland interviewed over 300 people close to Hitler: Tradul Junge, his secretary, Max Wunsche and Richard Schultze, his adjutants, Eva Braun's best friend and many others. He went to the source and his oral interviews constitute a tremendous historical resource.Toland shows that Hitler was sexually normal, which is important since Hitler's supposed "deviant sexuality" is the lynchpin of many inferior books.If you are to read one book about Adolf Hitler, make it this one. Nothing better has come down the pike in the 25 years since this books publication. For anyone interested in the history of the 20th century and World War II, this is a must read.