Hitler: 1889 - 1936: Hubris. by Kershaw, Ian - 2000

New York: W. W. Norton, 2000. American, reprint ed.. Paperback thick octavo, very good condition, black & white photos, corner tips front cover lightly scuffed, minor edgewear. Heavy (1.0 Kg), and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 845 pp. This book has been called the most compelling biography of the German dictator yet written. The author takes a close look at Hitler's darkness. Hitler’s path to power leads from the anti-Semitism of prewar Vienna through the First World War, the nationalism of Bavaria in the 1920s, and the undermining of German democracy by extremists of the right and left that opens the door for his seizure of the state in 1933. The author has drawn on previously untapped sources including the Joseph Goebbels diaries, recently discovered in Moscow. Ends with the promulgation of the Nuremberg laws that pushed German Jews to the fringes of society and the march of the German Army into the Rhineland, Hitler's first step towards the abyss of war.