Fülszöveg
'Elegantly written,
meticulously researched, fascinating'
Ian Kershaw
He was, of course, a man better known for burning books
than for collecting them and yet by the time he died, aged 56,
Adolf Hitler owned an estimated 16,000 volumes - the works
of historians, philosophers, poets, playwrights and novelists.
For the first time, Timothy W. Ryback offers a systematic
examination of this remarkable collection. The volumes in
Hitler's library are fascinating in themselves but it is the
marginalia - the comments, the exclamation marks, the
questions and underlinings, even the dirty thumbprints from
the trenches of the First World War - which are so revealing.
Hitler's Private Library provides us with a remarkable view of
Hitler's evolution - and unparalleled insights into his emotional
and intellectual world. Utterly compelling, it is also a landmark
in our understanding of the Third Reich.
'Ryback has made an original and interesting
contribution to the study of...
Tovább
Fülszöveg
'Elegantly written,
meticulously researched, fascinating'
Ian Kershaw
He was, of course, a man better known for burning books
than for collecting them and yet by the time he died, aged 56,
Adolf Hitler owned an estimated 16,000 volumes - the works
of historians, philosophers, poets, playwrights and novelists.
For the first time, Timothy W. Ryback offers a systematic
examination of this remarkable collection. The volumes in
Hitler's library are fascinating in themselves but it is the
marginalia - the comments, the exclamation marks, the
questions and underlinings, even the dirty thumbprints from
the trenches of the First World War - which are so revealing.
Hitler's Private Library provides us with a remarkable view of
Hitler's evolution - and unparalleled insights into his emotional
and intellectual world. Utterly compelling, it is also a landmark
in our understanding of the Third Reich.
'Ryback has made an original and interesting
contribution to the study of this monster,
not least by showing that, in some respects,
he was just like many of the rest of us'
Daily Telegraph
Vissza