Hitler: A Study In Tyranny
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: Second 1952 Edition.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
One of the most chilling and meticulously researched political biographies ever written, Hitler: A Study in Tyranny chronicles the extraordinary and catastrophic rise of Adolf Hitler from obscure Austrian drifter to the most destructive dictator the modern world has ever known. Set against the turbulent backdrop of post-WWI Germany — a nation humiliated, economically ravaged, and desperately searching for direction — Alan Bullock reconstructs Hitler's calculated ascent through the ranks of the Nazi Party, his seizure of absolute power, and his orchestration of a war that consumed tens of millions of lives across Europe and beyond. Bullock's magisterial work stands as a landmark of 20th-century historical scholarship, argued with surgical precision and written with the narrative authority of a master historian. Drawing on an extraordinary breadth of primary sources, including captured Nazi documents and eyewitness testimonies, Bullock presents a portrait of Hitler not as a mythical monster but as a dangerously rational opportunist, capable of breathtaking cynicism and cold political genius. The result is a biography that is as unsettling as it is illuminating — leaving the reader to grapple with the most disturbing question of the modern age: how does a democracy surrender itself to tyranny?
Author: Alan Bullock
Format: Hardback
Published: 1952, Odhams Press
Genre: Biography
Edition: Second 1952 Edition.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
One of the most chilling and meticulously researched political biographies ever written, Hitler: A Study in Tyranny chronicles the extraordinary and catastrophic rise of Adolf Hitler from obscure Austrian drifter to the most destructive dictator the modern world has ever known. Set against the turbulent backdrop of post-WWI Germany — a nation humiliated, economically ravaged, and desperately searching for direction — Alan Bullock reconstructs Hitler's calculated ascent through the ranks of the Nazi Party, his seizure of absolute power, and his orchestration of a war that consumed tens of millions of lives across Europe and beyond. Bullock's magisterial work stands as a landmark of 20th-century historical scholarship, argued with surgical precision and written with the narrative authority of a master historian. Drawing on an extraordinary breadth of primary sources, including captured Nazi documents and eyewitness testimonies, Bullock presents a portrait of Hitler not as a mythical monster but as a dangerously rational opportunist, capable of breathtaking cynicism and cold political genius. The result is a biography that is as unsettling as it is illuminating — leaving the reader to grapple with the most disturbing question of the modern age: how does a democracy surrender itself to tyranny?