Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)

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1. William L. Shirer

   Author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941, This Is Berlin: Radio Broadcasts from Nazi Germany

2. Ian Kershaw

   Author of Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris, Hitler: 1936-1945: Nemesis, Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry, the Nazis, and the Road to War

3. Winston S. Churchill

   Author of The Gathering Storm, Their Finest Hour, My Early Life: 1874-1904

4. Adolf Hitler

   Author of Mein Kampf, Hitler's Table Talk, My New Order

5. Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

   Author of Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

6. Cornelius Ryan

   Author of The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far

7. Albert Speer

   Author of Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs

8. Alan Bullock

   Author of Hitler : A Study in Tyranny

9. Hannah Arendt

   Author of Eichmann in Jerusalem, The Origins of Totalitarianism

10. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    Author of The Gulag Archipelago Three, August 1914

11. Friedrich Nietzsche

    Author of Beyond Good & Evil, The Will to Power

12. Richard J. Evans

    Author of The Coming of the Third Reich, The Third Reich in Power, The Third Reich at War

13. John Willard Toland

    Author of Adolf Hitler

14. Zedong Mao

    Author of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

15. Adam Smith

    Author of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

16. Karl Marx

    Author of The Communist Manifesto

17. Joseph Goebbels

    Author of The Goebbels diaries, 1942-1943, Final Entries 1945 : The Diaries of Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries

18. John Reed

    Author of Ten Days that Shook the World

19. Paul M. Kennedy

    Author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

20. Edward Gibbon

    Author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire