Hitler

Joachim Fest's magnificent biography of an evil man who made history with a high-handedness that even in his own days seemed anachronistic, and who taught the world bitter lessons it will never forget.'Joachim C. Fest ... author of the brilliant The Face of the Third Reich has cut a path through the forest of general studies and international scholarship and written what, astonishingly, seems to be the first comprehensive German life of Hitler since 1945. This makes him a very brave man and, while in no way supplanting Bullock's masterpiece of 1952 - indeed reaching many of the same conclusions by a somewhat different route - he has written a book that combines the virtues of intellectual and narrative organization with the attractions of bravura, and will clearly influence a whole new generation of readers' - Michael Ratcliffe in The Times'A major biography of Hitler ... [Joachim Fest] is both very readable and a perceptive synthesiser of recent specialist's de