Adolf Hitler
A Captivating Guide to the Life of the Führer of Nazi Germany

At 1,035 pages, they weren't screwing around when they decided to call this book "the definitive biography." I can pretty much tell you what Hitler ate for breakfast everyday between 1933 and 1945 (for instance, on April 30th, 1945 he ate a bullet). A few months back, I picked up a biography of Diana......more

Hitler and the Germans. John Toland’s biography of the bane of the twentieth century, Adolf Hitler is ultimate, definitive and impressive. First published in 1976 over 1000 pages long, it has stood the test of time. Toland has had many advantages of writing in his era. They major changes one being th......more

(updated with further nasty comment) Hitler was the world's greatest motivational speaker. You go to one of his meetings and he gives you astonishing dreams, and he gives you permissions. Next day, you see an old Jew in the street. Last week, you wanted to give him a kick. Today, you actually do that......more

John Toland's Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography is another doorstop popular history of the Third Reich from the ‘70s, when nonfiction shelves of bookstores were practically swastika shrines. Toland conceives the book as a European counterpart to his The Rising Sun, a blow-for-blow account of Wo......more