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Here is a monumental, vastly revealing biography of Adolf Hitler— filled with brilliant, original insights into the familiar aspects of Hider's life, and offering a wealth of new material only recendy discovered and never before published. These are just a few of the startling details you will encounter within the pages of John Toland's masterful, definitive work:
• Hitler was never a paperhanger or a house painter. But he was once a choirboy, who loved to read Westerns and play cowboys and Indians
• He wrote several plays and the libretto for an opera. St. Joan was one of his favorite dramatic works, and he knew many of Wagner's operas by heart. . .
• Hitler was plagued by a paranoic fear of cancer and by a genuine heart condition. He was also a strict vegetarian
• He could type, drive a car (barely), play the piano (somewhat ), used an elastic exerciser to stay in shape, and, like Napoleon, had a photographic memory
• Hitler was the first head of state to promote...
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Here is a monumental, vastly revealing biography of Adolf Hitler— filled with brilliant, original insights into the familiar aspects of Hider's life, and offering a wealth of new material only recendy discovered and never before published. These are just a few of the startling details you will encounter within the pages of John Toland's masterful, definitive work:
• Hitler was never a paperhanger or a house painter. But he was once a choirboy, who loved to read Westerns and play cowboys and Indians
• He wrote several plays and the libretto for an opera. St. Joan was one of his favorite dramatic works, and he knew many of Wagner's operas by heart. . .
• Hitler was plagued by a paranoic fear of cancer and by a genuine heart condition. He was also a strict vegetarian
• He could type, drive a car (barely), play the piano (somewhat ), used an elastic exerciser to stay in shape, and, like Napoleon, had a photographic memory
• Hitler was the first head of state to promote modern urban planning and anti-pollution devices in cities . . .
• At least four women attempted suicide over Hitler, and at least three succeeded
• The "Jewish question" was a long time obsession which directly or indirectly influenced almost all of his major political and military strategies
• Hider was the central architect of the Final Solution, and some of its methods were inspired by the U. S. Government's subjugation of the American Indian
• The Nazi laws defining "Jewishness" were carefully drawn to exclude both Jesus Christ and Adolf Hider, who feared that one of his grandparents might have been a Jew . . .
Although much has been written about Adolf Hitler, he remains a creature of legend, myth, and misconception----
Only in recent years have those who knew Hitler personally been willing or able to talk freely about him. John Toland has based this monumenta] biography on extensive research, involving a number of previously unknown or unavailable sources, and including over one hundred and fifty taped interviews with people directly involved in Hitler's private and public life. The result is a portrait of Hitler —as man, politician, and military leader —more complex and comprehensive than any ever before published.
With a masterful command of history, Mr. Toland has revealed Hitler within the context of the time that made him. The figure that emerges from these pages is in many ways more frightening than the traditional demonic caricature—for Toland has given the demon a human face. There are startling revelations in this book—de-
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tails of Hitler's personal life never before known, and fascinating new perspectives on a number of well-known events. Many falsehoods are exposed and distortions set right. But more remarkably, John Toland has given shape and meaning to the vast wealth of detail assembled here. It is an extraordinary, brilliant work of biography, of military, social, and political history.
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John Toland first wTote about Adolf Hitler in his best-selling The Last Hundred Days. His last hook—The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945—was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction. He is also the author of Battle: The Story of the Bulge, Ships in the Sky, and But Not in Shame. Mr. Toland lives in Danbury, Connecticut, with his wife and youngest child.
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