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A biography of the struggling Austrian artist who rose from obscurity to power as the leader of the Nazi party and, later, the German nation and whose ambitions led the world to war.

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From a penniless tramp he rose to wield more power than any other man in history. He reshaped the mind of a country, built a [nearly] unstoppable army from the remnants of a crushed nation - and committed murder on an unimaginable scale. He was Adolf Hitler, and his life and deeds will - and must - always be remembered, lest they be repeated.
While it did take me a very very very long time to get through this book, I still kind of...enjoyed it? More like was interested in it, because it's hard to enjoy a book about so much tragedy and terror.

Albert Marrin does a very good job writing about Htler's entire life and the war as a whole. He's the kind of nonfiction writer that makes me ask more questions and want to know even more about the subject, which, in my opinion, is the best kind of nonfiction writer.

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Albert Marrin, professor emeritus of history at Yeshiva University in New York City

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Adolf Hitler
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Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
DDC/MDS
943.086History & geographyHistory of EuropeCentral Europe: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czech, Poland, HungaryHistorical periods of GermanyGermany 1866-Third Reich 1933-1945
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DD247 .H5 .M282History of Europe, Asia, Africa and OceaniaGermanyHistory of GermanyHistoryBy periodModern, 1519-19th-20th centuriesRevolution and Republic, 1918-
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