Hitler, A Study In Tyranny

Alan Bullock

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This is, quite simply, the best single-volume biography of Hitler available.  Alan Bullock's prose is lucid and fluent: no mean feat in a book which contains in its gripping and appalling narrative so many facts and figures representing horrific events.  Despite the passage of time, and the emergence of new sources since the book's original publication in 1952, the book has been revised substantially only once.  If you wanted to have an idea of how a phenomenon such as Hitler came about, and of what life was like in Nazi Germany, this would be the perfect place to start. - review by Dan Fenton