The Hitler Years: A Photographic Documentary
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: long tear along fold of jacket - repaired with tape
Few figures in modern history have cast as long and dark a shadow as Adolf Hitler, and The Hitler Years: A Photographic Documentary presents one of the most comprehensive visual records of the man and the movement that plunged the world into catastrophe. Ivor Matanle chronicles the rise and fall of the Third Reich through a carefully curated collection of photographs, guiding the reader from Hitler's early political ambitions in Weimar Germany through the machinery of Nazi power, the brutality of the Second World War, and the ultimate collapse of the regime in 1945. Beyond its role as a historical archive, this work serves as a sobering testament to the dangers of unchecked ideology and mass manipulation. Matanle's authoritative commentary contextualises each image with precision, ensuring the photographs illuminate rather than merely shock. Designed by Gary Hazell and produced by David Gibbon and Ted Smart, the volume is a model of documentary bookmaking — visually arresting and historically rigorous. For students of 20th-century history and those seeking to understand how one of humanity's darkest chapters unfolded in real time, this photographic record raises urgent questions that remain unanswered to this day.
Author: Ivor Matanle
Format: Hardback
Published: 1983, Colour Library Books
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: long tear along fold of jacket - repaired with tape
Few figures in modern history have cast as long and dark a shadow as Adolf Hitler, and The Hitler Years: A Photographic Documentary presents one of the most comprehensive visual records of the man and the movement that plunged the world into catastrophe. Ivor Matanle chronicles the rise and fall of the Third Reich through a carefully curated collection of photographs, guiding the reader from Hitler's early political ambitions in Weimar Germany through the machinery of Nazi power, the brutality of the Second World War, and the ultimate collapse of the regime in 1945. Beyond its role as a historical archive, this work serves as a sobering testament to the dangers of unchecked ideology and mass manipulation. Matanle's authoritative commentary contextualises each image with precision, ensuring the photographs illuminate rather than merely shock. Designed by Gary Hazell and produced by David Gibbon and Ted Smart, the volume is a model of documentary bookmaking — visually arresting and historically rigorous. For students of 20th-century history and those seeking to understand how one of humanity's darkest chapters unfolded in real time, this photographic record raises urgent questions that remain unanswered to this day.