Goering
by Richard Overy
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Published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series and featuring a new preface by the author, this classic biography by acclaimed historian Richard Overy takes the reader on a chilling journey into the heart of Hitler's inner circle. Hermann Goering was Hitler's most loyal supporter, his designated successor and the second most powerful man in the Third Reich. One of the main architects of the Nazi regime, he was also instrumental in the creation of the Gestapo and directly ordered the Final show more Solution. But who was the man behind the carefully-constructed mask? Self-indulgent and ruthless, sybaritic and brutal, egotistical yet capable of self-effacement, weak-willed yet fiercely calculating, Goering was a contradictory, complex and often bufoonish character. He styled himself as the 'Iron Man' but was known to wear togas, fur coats and faux-medieval hunting outfits. A brilliant World War I fighter pilot, military leader and mercurial Luftwaffe commander, he also loved the opera and took a perverse pride in his ill-gotten, infamous art collection. Richard Overy illuminates the many facets of Goering's personality and charts his story from his golden days as Hitler's most trusted commander to his failures and loss of power after the Battle of Britain, his sensational trial at Nuremberg and his ignominious death by suicide on the eve of his execution. show lessTags
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Slow and with an emphasis on economic history, but by a noted economic historian, so I should have known better.
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Richard Overy is Professor of History at the University of Exeter, UK. He has published more than 25 books on the history of air power, the Second World War and the European dictatorship. He was the winner of the Wolfon Prize for history in 2004 and in 2014 he won a Cundill Award for his book The Bombing War: European 1939-1945. He is a Fellow of show more the British Academy, and a Member of the European Academy for Science and Arts. show less
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Heyne Biographien (137)
Common Knowledge
- Original title
- Goering: The "Iron Man"
- Original publication date
- 1984
- People/Characters
- Hermann Göring
Classifications
- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 943.086 — History & geography History of Europe Central Europe: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czech, Poland, Hungary Historical periods of Germany Germany 1866- Third Reich 1933-1945
- LCC
- DD247 .G67 .O94 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Germany History of Germany History By period Modern, 1519- 19th-20th centuries Revolution and Republic, 1918-
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- 119
- Popularity
- 274,892
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.17)
- Languages
- English, German, Russian
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 11
- ASINs
- 2
