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Hitler's private library : the books that shaped his life / Timothy W. Ryback.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Reference Collection DD247.H5 R94 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ryback, Timothy W., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Books and reading.
- Hitler, Adolf.
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Knowledge and learning.
- Germany--History--1933-1945.
- Germany.
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
- Books and reading.
- Learning and scholarship.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- 1st Vintage books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 2010.
- Summary:
- An original exploration of some of the formative influences in Hitler's life--the books he most revered, and how they shaped the man and his thinking. Hitler's education and worldview were formed largely from the books in his private library. Recently, hundreds of those books were discovered in the Library of Congress by Timothy Ryback, complete with Hitler's marginalia on their pages--underlines, question marks, exclamation points, scrawled comments. Ryback traces the path of the key phrases and ideas that Hitler incorporated into his writing, speeches, conversations, self-definition, and actions. In the process, he demonstrates the ability of books to preserve in vivid ways the lives of their collectors.--From publisher description.
- Contents:
- The man who burned books
- Frontline reading, 1915
- The mentor's trade
- The Hitler triology
- An American Bible
- The lost philosopher
- Book wars
- Divine inspiration
- Frontline reading, 1940
- Hitler's history of the Second World War
- A miracle deferred.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-286) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780307455260
- 0307455262
- OCLC:
- 316030696
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