This book describes the life of Adolf Hitler, who, as leader of the Nazi party, provoked World War II and conquered most of Europe before his regime was defeated in 1945.

The author, a psychotherapist, examines Hitler's psyche, his solution to the "Jewish question," and the character flaws that contributed to his "most disastrous military decisions."--Jacket.

"Examines why Hitler's campaign to transform the crippled republic of the 1930s into a military and industrial power led to decades of cultural fascination with the Nazi leader, and the ramifications of this fascination on present day politics."--

"No one else so changed the state of the world and left behind such a wake of ruins as Adolf Hitler. Yet crucially, there has been no proper attempt to examine how and why so many people followed Hitler ultimately to the destruction of their own country. These three films examine the key decisions Hitler took during the Second World War, to find out why others decided to push forward and achieve his goals." --

The final days of World War II are related in a study that furnishes details of Hitler's final days in the bunker and the torment on the streets of Germany's cities and towns as the Third Reich collapsed under the weight of American, British, French, and Russian forces. There is nothing in recent history that comes close to the cataclysmic events of the spring of 1945. Never before has the defeat of a nation been accompanied by such monumental loss...

"From a prize-winning historian, the definitive biography of Adolph Hitler. Hitler offers a deeply learned and radically revisionist biography, arguing that the dictator's main strategic enemy, from the start of his political career in the 1920s, was not communism or the Soviet Union, but capitalism and the United States. Whereas most historians have argued that Hitler underestimated the American threat, Simms shows that Hitler embarked on a preemptive...

"Beginning with Hitler's time in Austria as a starving art student and ending with a Germany in ruins, Shigeru Mizuki's Hitler retraces the path Hitler took in life, coolly examining his charismatic appeal and his calculated political maneuvering." --