DescriptionNo career in modern American letters is at once so brilliant, varied, and controversial as that of Norman Mailer. In a span of more than six decades, Mailer has delved into subjects ranging from World War II to Ancient Egypt, from the march on the Pentago…
DescriptionWhen Hitler's war ended in 1945, the war over Hitler, who he really was, what gave birth to his unique evil, had just begun. Hitler did not escape the bunker in Berlin, but, half a century later, he has managed to escape explanation in ways both frightening and profound. Explaining Hitler is an extraordinary quest, an expedition into the war zone of Hitler theories. This is a passionate, enthralling book that illuminates what Hitler explainers tell us about Hitler, about the explainers, and about ourselves.
DescriptionJoseph Stalin had never been able to shake off the nightmare of Adolf Hitler. Just as in 1941 he refused to understand that Hitler had broken their non-aggression pact, in 1945 he was unwilling to believe that the dictator had committed suicide in the deb…
DescriptionNapoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler were two of history's most imperious dictators. Desmond Seward examines the lives of these leaders and demonstrates the numerous striking parallels between their careers and their roles in shaping the destiny of modern Europe. Napoleon and Hitler were both outsiders of humble origins, the one a Corsican squireen, the other an Austrian petit-bourgeois. Both struggled to be accepted by society. And both, once they achieved power, conducted their political and military careers in similar fashion. For each man, the grand design was the ultimate conquest of Europe, and for each the dream would turn into a nightmare in a disastrous Russian winter campaign. Napoleon and Hitler shows in an entirely new way how history can repeat itself - and in doing so, it leads the listener to new and unexpected insights into these two terrible giants of modern times.
DescriptionWhen the famous German author Sebastian Haffner died at the age of 91 in 1999, a manuscript was discovered among his unpublished papers. The book was begun in 1939, but with the advent of World War II, Haffner had set it aside. His family made the decisio…
