Hitler

Resumen del libro

Now at last in a single, abridged volume the definitive life.

When the two volumes of Ian Kershaw's biography of Hitler, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis were published, they were immediately greeted around the world as the essential works on perhaps the most malign figure ever to hold power in modern Europe. In the face of considerable demand for such an edition, Kershaw has now created a single volume version. The result is a frightening, fascinating narrative of how a bitter provincial failure from an obscure corner of Austria rose to unparalleled power; how the half-baked, contemptible ideas of a vagrant former art student coalesced into an ideology that for twelve horrific years shaped the fate of millions; and how both in his determination to impose his will militarily and to fend off his many enemies he unleashed a genocidal Armageddon.

No one individual can stand in as the scapegoat for the vast social, technological, economic and military forces that shape our societies but if ever there was one man whose ideas and personality shaped and cowed those forces, as well as embodying them, it was Hitler. This is his story and Kershaw tells it with unique authority, and with moral anger.

Biografía del autor

Sir Ian Kershaw es catedrático de Historia Moderna en la Universidad de Sheffield. Es autor de Hitler. La biografía definitiva (Península, 2010), la monumental biografía best seller del dictador, originalmente publicada en dos tomos (años 2000 y 2005), que fue seleccionada para el Premio de Biografía Whitbread de 1998, recibió el primer Premio Samuel Johnson de Ensayo, el Premio Literario Wolfson de Historia, el Premio Bruno Kreisky de Austria para el libro político del año, se le concedió conjuntamente el premio inaugural de la Academia Británica y fue seleccionada para el Premio de Biografía Whitbread del año 2000. Es autor de Un amigo de Hitler (Península, 2006) que ganó el Elizabeth Longford Prize de Biografía Histórica, Decisiones trascendentales (Península, 2008), El mito de Hitler (Crítica, 2012), El final. Alemania 1944-1945 (Península, 2013), Descenso a los infiernos. Europa 1914-1949 (Crítica, 2016), Ascenso y crisis. Europa 1950-2017: un camino incierto (Crítica, 2019) y Personalidad y poder (Crítica, 2022).