Now at last in a single, abridged volume - the definitive life. When the two volumes
of Ian Kershaw's biography of Hitler, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler 1936-1945:
Nemesis were published, they were immediately greeted around the world as the essential
works on perhaps the most malign figure ever to hold power in modern Europe.
In the face of considerable demand for such an edition, Kershaw has now created a single
volume version. The result is a frightening, fascinating narrative of how a bitter
provincial failure from an obscure corner of Austria rose to unparalleled power; how
the half-baked, contemptible ideas of a vagrant former art student coalesced into an
ideology that for twelve horrific years shaped the fate of millions; and how both in his
determination to impose his will militarily and to fend off his many enemies he unleashed
a genocidal Armageddon. No one individual can stand in as the scapegoat for the vast
social, technological, economic and military forces that shape our societies, but if ever
there was one man whose ideas and personality shaped and cowed those forces, as well as
embodying them, it was Hitler. This is his story and Kershaw tells it with unique
authority, and with moral anger.

Ian Kershaw is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield and one of
the world's leading authorities on Hitler. He was the historical advisor to the highly
successful BBC series The Nazis; A Warning from History.

He is the author of The Hitler Myth: Image and Reality in the Third Reich, Popular
Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich, Bavaria 1933-45, The Nazi Dictatorship:
Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation and Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed
the World, 1940-1941. He is editor of Weimar: Why Did German Democracy Fail? and Hitler:
A Profile in Power; and co-editor, with Moshe Lewin, of Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships
in Comparison.

He was knighted in 2002. This is in epub format.

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