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HITLER: 1936-1945 Nemesis

By: Ian Kershaw
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
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The climax and conclusion of one of the best-selling biographies of our time. The New Yorker declared the first volume of Ian Kershaw's two-volume masterpiece "as close to definitive as anything we are likely to see," and that promise is fulfilled in this stunning second volume.

As Nemesis opens, Adolf Hitler has achieved absolute power within Germany and triumphed in his first challenge to the European powers. Idolized by large segments of the population and firmly supported by the Nazi regime, Hitler is poised to subjugate Europe. Nine years later, his vaunted war machine destroyed, Allied forces sweeping across Germany, Hitler will end his life with a pistol shot to his head.

©2000 Ian Kershaw (P)2013 Audible, Inc. 20th Century Europe Germany Historical Military Modern Politics & Activism Presidents & Heads of State Wars & Conflicts World World War II War Imperialism Interwar Period Holocaust Soviet Union Scary Socialism Royalty Middle Ages Russia

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"More probing, more judicious, more authoritative in its rich detail...more commanding in its mastery of the horrific narrative." (Milton J. Rosenberg, Chicago Tribune)
Comprehensive Biography • Excellent Historical Research • Excellent Narration • Insightful Analysis • Balanced Perspective
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Sir Ian Kershaw’s two-volume biography is the standard against which any other Hitler bio is measured. It is simply non pareil.

The Definitive Biography

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Oh jesus christ humans. There's no excuse.
It's just people, just fear and pride and a thirst for honor. It's the cultural ulmination of the veneration of warfare and power.

Fantastic, enthralling, may make you miserable.

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Ian Kershaw does and absolutely amazing job. He delves into the mind of Hitler and those around him. Explains in depth the nature of the Fuhrur cult, working towards the Fuhrur. Kershaw also examines the complexities of Nazi bureaucracy and the conflicting interests the dogged the Nazi system. A must read for any World War II historian.

Best Biography of Adolf Hitler

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A very long book that worked well as audiobook due to superb narration. Such a complex book can be hard to follow, but the reader's phrasing helped me focus.

Masterpiece

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amazingly informative, in depth, and overall the go to guide for anything Hitler. A must read or listen.

One of the best and informative biographies ever.

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Sir Ian Kershaw told this in great detail. Something everyone interested in WWII should read.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

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Kershaw writing nearly two full generations from the Third Reich has the benefit of Goebles Diary and all the preceding scholars. His summation is interesting. Though not a bash on all German's his summation like most scholars is the seemingly unanswered question of how a modern,educated,highly advance Nation like the Germany of the 1930's fell into the spell of Hitler. But if yo look at the British Aristocracy that ruled Britain until Churchill was called in by the common people , I believe that most European countries were not anti Hitler just afraid of his military might.

A must read for all Hitler scholars and WWII buffs.

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The sense of foreboding one gets when listening to the final chapters is astonishing. Ian Kershaw does an excellent job trying to explain how such a cataclysmic damnation could've occurred. I still can't quite wrap my mind around it.

A masterpiece of doom

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Kershaw's identification of the Nazis hubris is absolutely spot on... after a lifetime of fascination with the subject of Nazism he could not have more precisely identified why we are still so haunted by the Third Reich. They literally scorned all morality with the belief that the "ends justify the means" even when those "means" are of millions of innocent lives snuffed out. How could arguably the most educated, literate, and economically developed country in the world fall under the hypnotic sway of Nazism.

Hitler's hubris

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This is a must read for people to understand how we must remain on guard against evil. Kershaw's overriding message seems to be that the destruction brought about in the European theatre of World War II was not the work of one depraved psychopath, but the collaboration of many power-hungry, corrupt psychophants aided and abetted by an entire population willing to look away as they brought their own nation to destruction. The most frightening thing about this story is the fact that this evil was not rooted out, but was rather chased into hiding and we see signs that it is being emboldened today to rear once again in the West its grotesque, demoralizing head.

Frightening this is so close

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