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This one-volume edition of Kershaw's "superb biography" (Ian Buruma, "New York Times Book Review") of Hitler will be the final word on the most demonic figure of the 20th century. of photos.

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• List of Illustrations(p. vii)
• List of Maps(p. xiii)
• Preface(p. xv)
• Acknowledgements(p. xix)
• Maps(p. xxv)
• 1936: Hitler Triumphant(p. xxxv)
• 1 Ceaseless Radicalization(p. 1)
• 2 The Drive for Expansion(p. 61)
• 3 Marks of a Genocidal Mentality(p. 127)
• 4 Miscalculation(p. 155)
• 5 Going for Broke(p. 181)
• 6 Licensing Barbarism(p. 231)
• 7 Zenith of Power(p. 281)
• 8 Designing a 'War of Annihilation'(p. 339)
• 9 Showdown(p. 391)
• 10 Fulfilling the 'Prophecy'(p. 459)
• 11 Last Big Throw of the Dice(p. 497)
• 12 Beleaguered(p. 559)
• 13 Hoping for Miracles(p. 607)
• 14 Luck of the Devil(p. 653)
• 15 No Way Out(p. 685)
• 16 Into the Abyss(p. 749)
• 17 Extinction(p. 795)

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Library Journal Review

The second volume of Kershaw's biography of Hitler covers the period from the Anschluss with Austria to 1945. Kershaw (history, Univ. of Sheffield) describes the Nazi state as administratively chaotic. Since Hitler was such a terrible manager, the German bureaucracy almost literally broke down in the years immediately leading up to World War II. The competing lines of authority, the various departments "working towards Hitler"Das Kershaw terms itDalong with the dictator's managerial style combined to make Hitler the ultimate arbiter of Nazi Germany. By 1938, Hitler's word was the equivalent of written law. After 1936, Hitler also came to believe his own propaganda and considered himself the greatest military and political genius of all history. Without any reasonable restraint, he led Germany inexorably to destruction. Interestingly, while Germans' approval of the Nazi party waned even before 1939, Hitler's popularity remained high. Kershaw's two volumes will probably be the standard source for many years, comparing favorably to such staples as Alan Bullock's Hitler: A Study in Tyranny. Recommended for all libraries.DFrederic Krome, Jacob Rader Marcus Ctr. of the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

CHOICE Review

This biography by Kershaw (Univ. of Sheffield; Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris, 1999), based on a variety of new sources, is not only great historical writing but also a masterful study of Hitler and his role in history. It supersedes all other biographies of Hitler. Volume II opens with the remilitarization of the Rhineland and follows the history of Germany and Hitler through diplomatic crises, WW II (for which Hitler had yearned), the assassination attempt on Hitler's life, and on to the final collapse of the Third Reich and Hitler's suicide. Kershaw has written not only a biography of Hitler but also a history of the German people who cheered him, died for him, and paid the price for defeat. Unlike previous biographies, which devoted little space to the Final Solution, Kershaw follows the Holocaust from euthanasia to the death squads and finally to the killing centers, arguing that without Hitler, the Holocaust was unthinkable. Nevertheless, Hitler tried to conceal his involvement. The author's description of the collapse of the Third Reich is brilliantly written. Kershaw's book should be in every modern European history collection. K. Eubank emeritus, CUNY Queens College

Booklist Review

At the conclusion of Kershaw's Hitler, 1889^-1936: Hubris (1999), the Rhineland had been remilitarized, domestic opposition crushed, and Jews virtually outlawed. What the genuinely popular leader of Germany would do with his unchallenged power, the world knows and recoils from. The historian's duty, superbly discharged by Kershaw, is to analyze how and why Hitler was able to ignite a world war, commit the most heinous crime in history, and throw his country into the abyss of total destruction. He didn't do it alone. Although Hitler's twin goals of expelling Jews and acquiring "living space" for other Germans were hardly secret, "achieving" them did not proceed according to a blueprint, as near as Kershaw can ascertain. However long Hitler had cherished launching an all-out war against the Jews and against Soviet Russia, as he did in 1941, it was only conceivable as reality following a tortuous series of events of increasing radicality, in both foreign and domestic politics. At each point, whether haranguing a mass audience or a small meeting of military officers, the demagogue had to and did persuade his listeners that his course of action was the only one possible. Acquiescence to aggression and genocide was further abetted by the narcotic effect of the "Hitler myth," the propagandized image of the infallible leader as national savior, which produced a force for radicalization parallel to Hitler's personal murderous fanaticism; the motto of the time called it "working towards the Fuhrer." Underlings in competition with each other would do what they thought Hitler wanted, as occurred with aspects of organizing the Final Solution. Kershaw's narrative connecting this analysis gives outstanding evidence that he commands and understands the source material, producing this magisterial scholarship that will endure for decades. Gilbert Taylor

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Ian Kershaw is professor of modern history at the University of Sheffield.

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