Скачать книгу (размер 5 461 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1072) Аннотация: Now at last in a single, abridged paperback — the definitive life. Ian Kershaw's two-volume biography of Hitler was greeted with universal acclaim as the essential work on one of the most malign figures in history. Now this landmark biography is available in one single, abridged edition, tracing the story of how a bitter, failed art student from an obscure corner of Austria rose to unparalleled…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: 'It is now time that something was done. But the man who has the courage to do something must do it in the knowledge that he will go down in German history as a traitor. If he does not, however, he will be a traitor to his own conscience' — Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, July 1944. The July 1944 plot to kill Adolf Hitler was a desperate attempt by a group of senior officers to redeem Germany's…
Скачать книгу (размер 5 246 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1030) Аннотация: This one-volume biography of Adolf Hitler distills Ian Kershaw's stunning two-volume study Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler: 1936–1945: Nemesis. From Hitler's origins as a failed artist in fin-de-siècle Vienna to the terrifying last days in his Berlin bunker, Kershaw's biography is a mesmerizing portrait of how Hitler attained, exercised, and retained power. Drawing on previously…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: The history of the Second World War, with its horrible twists and turns, is so well known that the major events and their outcomes have taken on a sort of inevitability. Ian Kershaw's extraordinarily though-provoking and gripping new book, Fateful Choices, demolishes any such sense of inevitability. It dramatises brilliantly and distressingly events that between them could have resulted in…