The Hitler of History Hitler's Biographers on Trial

by John Lukacs

Since 1945 there have been over a hundred biographies of Hitler. What happens when so many people reinterpret the life of a single individual? Does Hitler emerge as a mythic anti-hero whose crimes and errors blur behind an aura of power and conquest? By making Hitler¿s biographers ¿ rather than Hitler himself ¿ the subject of inquiry, Lukacs reveals the contradictions that take us back to the true Hitler of history. By examining those ¿ like the controversial historian David Irving ¿ who have been involved in a `rehabilitation¿ of Hitler, Lukacs draws powerful conclusions about Hitler¿s differences from other monsters of history, such as Napoleon, Mussolini and Stalin. As the NEW YORK TIMES said of this book: ¿Surprising, even shocking... Mr Lukacs arrives at [his conclusions] with painstaking, exhaustive logic that is hard to resist.¿

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