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Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A leading expert reexamines history to offer a stunningly original portrait of Hitler as a competent military commander and strategist. After Germanys humiliating World War II defeat, numerous German generals published memoirs claiming that their countrys brilliant military leadership had been undermined by the Führers erratic decision making. The author of three highly acclaimed books on the era, Stephen Fritz upends this characterization of Hitler...
7) Bad company
Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 11
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Near the end of World War II, Hitler gave his personal diary to an aid for safekeeping. Containing minutes from a secret meeting between emissaries of Hitler and Roosevelt, it outlined plans to join forces against the Soviet Union. Ironically, the American representative was a direct relative of Jake Cazalet, the current U.S. president. Now this diary has become a powerful weapon.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Volker Ullrich offers fascinating new insight into Hitler's character and personality, vividly portraying the insecurity, obsession with minutiae, and narcissistic penchant for gambling that led Hitler to overrule his subordinates and then blame them for his failures; and, ultimately, when he realized the war was not winnable, to embark on the annihilation of Germany itself in order to punish the people who he believed had failed to hand him victory....
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The idea that historical events, catastrophes in particular, didn't happen on their own but were driven by the hidden machinations of malign influences has deep roots. The appeal is clear: we can ascribe these events not to human shortsightedness or frailty, or to the contingencies of fate and circumstance, but to unseen forces. Conspiracy theories and paranoia go hand in hand. Something, or someone, is trying to control our lives and to regain that...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2012
Language
English
Description
Explores the circumstances and events that contributed to the rise of Adolf Hitler, noting his early character flaws and how he rallied a small group of like-minded political and social outcasts in history-shaping ways.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Description
"August 1936: The eyes of the world are on Berlin, where Adolf Hitler is using the Olympic Games to showcase his powerful new regime. Cynical British journalist Richard Denham knows that the carefully staged spectacle masks the Nazis' ruthless brutality, and he's determined to report the truth. Sparks fly when the seasoned newspaperman meets the beautiful and rebellious American socialite Eleanor Emerson. A superb athlete whose brash behavior got...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Berlin, November 1937. In a secret meeting with his top advisors, Adolf Hitler proclaims the urgent necessity for a war of aggression in Europe. Some conservatives are unnerved by this grandiose plan, but they are soon silenced, setting in motion events that will lead to the most calamitous war in history. Benjamin Carter Hett, the author of The Death of Democracy, his acclaimed history of the fall of the Weimar Republic, takes us from Berlin to...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In 1938, Mercedes-Benz began production of the largest, most luxurious limousine in the world. A machine of frightening power and sinister beauty, the Grosser 770K Model 150 Offener Tourenwagen was 20 feet long, seven feet wide, and tipped the scales at 5 tons. Its supercharged, 230-horsepower engine propelled the beast to speeds over 100 m.p.h. while its occupants reclined on glove-leather seats stuffed with goose down. Armor plated and equipped...
17) The world at war
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
2004, c1973
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary collection of newsreel, propaganda, and home-movie footage drawn from the archives of 18 nations, including color close-ups of Adolf Hitler taken by his mistress, that present an unvarnished prespective of the war's pivotal events. Penetrating interviews with eyewitness participants - from Hitler's secretary to Alger Hiss to ordinary citizens who stood outside the battle lines - and spine-tingling, first-hand accounts to an already...
Author
Series
World War II novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the success of the Normandy invasion, the Allied commanders are buoyantly confident that the war in Europe will be over in a matter of weeks. In mid-December 1944, the Germans launch a desperate and ruthless counteroffensive in the Ardennes forest, utterly surprising the unprepared Americans who stand in their way. Through the frigid snows of the mountainous terrain, German tanks and infantry struggle to realize Hitler's goal.
After the success...
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