Adolf Hitler, Volumes 1-2

By: John Toland

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 as, in Toland's words, "far more complex and contradictory . . . obsessed by his dream of cleansing Europe Jews . . . a hybrid of Prometheus and Lucifer."

• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B001PUZ2BQ
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Doubleday and Co

Customer Reviews

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

There are H-i-t-l-er 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--le-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-e-r. 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.