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From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler’s Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler seized power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and ruinIn the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse. One in three Germans was unemployed. Violence was rampant. Hitler’s National Socialists surged at the polls. Paul von Hindenburg, an aging war hero and avowed monarch...

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Before Germany was engulfed by Nazi dictatorship, it was a constitutional republic. And just before Dachau Concentration Camp became a site of Nazi genocide, it was a state detention center for political prisoners, subject to police authority and due process. The camp began its irrevocable transformation from one to the other following the execution of four Jewish detainees in the spring of 1933. Timothy W. Ryback's gripping and poignant histo...

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He was, of course, a man better known for burning books than collecting them and yet by the time he died, aged 56, Adolf Hitler owned an estimated 16, 000 volumes - the works of historians, philosophers, poets, playwrights and novelists.

The remarkable story of Josef Hartinger, the German prosecutor who risked everything to bring to justice the first killers of the Holocaust and whose efforts would play a key role in the Nuremberg tribunal.At 9 am on April 13, 1933, deputy prosecutor Josef Hartinger received a telephone call summoning him to the newly established concentration camp of Dachau. Four prisoners had been shot. The SS guards claimed that the men had been trying to e...

Hoe de Holocaust begon en door één man bijna voorkomen werd Dit verbijsterende boek laat tot in de kleinste dramatische details - plaatsen, tijdstippen, mensen en gebeurtenissen - zien hoe de Holocaust begon, en hoe die bijna gestopt werd. Dit is het verhaal van de eerste vier slachtoffers van de Holocaust - Rudolf Benario, Ernst Goldmann, Arthur Kahn en Edwin Kahn - en van de man die alles deed om hun ss-moordenaars te ontmaskeren. Hitlers e...

At 9am on 13 April 1933 deputy prosecutor Josef Hartinger received a telephone call summoning him to the newly established concentration camp of Dachau, where four prisoners had been shot.

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A Washington Post Notable Book With a new chapter on eugenicist Madison Grant's The Passing of the Great RaceIn this brilliant and original exploration of some of the formative influences in Adolf Hitler's life, Timothy Ryback examines the books that shaped the man and his thinking.Hitler was better known for burning books than collecting them but, as Ryback vividly shows us, books were Hitler's constant companions throughout his life. They ac...