02051cam a2200289 a 4500001001300000003000600013005001700019008004100036010001700077016001800094020001500112020001800127035001900145040002400164041001300188050001800201100009800219240002100317245008900338260004600427300004600473504006700519520104900586600003101635650005101666650004401717ocm01682712 OCoLC20241126085217.0751007s1974    enka     b    001 0beng d  a   73018154 7 a0083539052Uk  a0297767550  a9780297767558  a(OCoLC)1682712  bengcGAFCSC LIBRARY0 aengager 4aDD247.H5bF421 aFest, Joachim C.,d1926-2006.1https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdx3tgYbFYRYT9hC6x7HC10aHitler.lEnglish10aHitler /cJoachim C. Fest ; translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston.  aLondon :bWeidenfeld and Nicolson,c1974.  axiii, 844 pages :billustrations ;c24 cm  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 817-829) and index.  aA bestseller in its original German edition and subsequently translated into more than a dozen languages, Joachim Fest's Hitler as become a classic portrait of a man, a nation, and an era. Fest tells and interprets the extraordinary story of a man's and a nation's rise from impotence to absolute power, as Germany and Hitler, from shared premises, entered into their covenant. He shows Hitler exploiting the resentments of the shaken, post-World War I social order and seeing through all that was hollow behind the appearance of power, at home and abroad. Fest reveals the singularly penetrating politician, hypnotizing Germans and outsiders alike with the scope of his projects and the theatricality of their presentation. Fest also, perhaps most importantly, brilliantly uncovers the destructive personality who aimed at and achieved devastation on an unprecedented scale. As history and as biography, this is a towering achievement, a compelling story told in a way only a German could tell it, dispassionately, but from the inside. (Time).10aHitler, Adolf,d1889-1945. 7aNational socialismxHistoryy20th century2nli 7aHeads of statezGermanyvBiography2nli