Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi [Hardcover] [Nov 23, 2017] WEBER - Hardcover

Weber, Thomas:

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ISBN 10: 0199664625 ISBN 13: 9780199664627

Publisher: Oxford University Press 2017., 2017

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Thomas Weber teaches European and international history at the University of Aberdeen. Since earning his DPhil from the University of Oxford, he has held fellowships or has taught at Harvard University, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago, and the University of Glasgow. His first book, The Lodz Ghetto Album, won a 2004 Golden Light Award and a 2005 Infinity Award. His second book, Our Friend "The Enemy" is the recipient of the 2008 Duc d'Arenberg History Prize for the best book of a general nature, intended for a wide public, on the history and culture of the European continent.

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This is the most important book on Hitler and National Socialism since Ian Kershaw's monumental biography. It is amazing how much new information and documentation Thomas Weber has used to show precisely when, how, and why Hitler's world view was shaped, and precisely where the intellectual, emotional, and social origins of genocide and of the Holocaust lay. He has precisely recreated the world of Munich in the early 1920s, to show how a burning hostility to internationalism - we would say today globalism - emerged. * Harold James, Professor of History, Princeton University * Thomas Weber is one of the foremost world authorities on Hitler. He refuted the mantra that there was nothing more to say about the German dictator and no new sources to be found with his path-breaking study of Hitler's First War. In Becoming Hitler, he takes the story into the turbulent period after the end of the conflict and excelled himself. This new book shows that Hitler was by no means a product of his environment but swum against the Bavarian mainstream and was nearly drowned by it. The argument is once again supported by an array of fresh sources and conveyed in compelling prose. * Brendan Simms, author of Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present * Brilliant. * Gavriel D. Rosenfield, Counterfactual History Review * Vital, revolutionary, groundbreaking... Weber forces us to rethink what we know about Hitler and charts his metamorphosis into a hated demagogue. * CG, All About History * This book is hugely important: it is a genuine contribution to our understanding of one of history's ogres. * Roger Moorhouse, BBC History Magazine * 5* review. "A thoroughly researched book and a must for scholars of history, Hitler, National Socialism and the Twentieth Century. * Paul Donnelley, express.co.uk *

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