Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life
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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.
For the first time, Timothy W. Ryback offers a systematic examination of this remarkable collection. The volumes in Hitler's library are fascinating in themselves but it is the marginalia - the comments, the exclamation marks, the questions and underlinings - even the dirty thumbprints on the pages of a book he read in the trenches of the First World War - which are so revealing.
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Manufacturer: Vintage
Release date: 12 January 2010
ISBN-10 : 0307455262 | ISBN-13: 9780307455260
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Release date: 12 January 2010
ISBN-10 : 0307455262 | ISBN-13: 9780307455260
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