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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adolf Hitler spent 1924 away from society and surrounded by co-conspirators of the failed Beer Hall Putsch. Behind bars in a prison near Munich, Hitler passed the year with deep reading and intensive writing, a year of slowly walking gravel paths while working feverishly on his book Mein Kampf. This was the year of Hitler's final transformation into the self-proclaimed savior and infallible leader who would appropriate Germany's historical traditions...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An investigative journalist defends his theory that Adolf Hitler did not commit suicide, as commonly believed, and instead escaped from Germany to Indonesia at the end of World War II, where he married and worked in a hospital.
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Answers the lingering questions surrounding Hitler's death in his bunker using unprecedented access to secret Russian archives that also detail the layout of the bunker and offer eyewitness accounts of the dictator's final days.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse. One in three Germans was unemployed. Violence was rampant. Hitler's National Socialists surged at the polls. Paul von Hindenburg, an aging war hero and avowed monarchist, was a reluctant president bound by oath to uphold the constitution. The November elections offered Hitler the prospect of a Reichstag majority and the path to political power. But instead, the Nazis lost two...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A New York Times bestseller, Norman Ohler's Blitzed is a "fascinating, engrossing, often dark history of drug use in the Third Reich" (Washington Post).
The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. Yet as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs: cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, which were consumed by everyone from factory workers...
The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. Yet as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs: cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, which were consumed by everyone from factory workers...
11) Munich
Author
Language
English
Description
September 1938. Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there. Munich. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the Channel and the Fuhrer's train steams relentlessly south from Berlin, two young men travel with secrets of their own. Hugh Legat is one of Chamberlain's private secretaries; Paul Hartmann a German...
13) Adolf Hitler
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Extensive research and interviews with people directly involved in Hitler's public and private life form the basis for the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's detailed portrait of Hitler.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"By early 1945, the destruction of the German Nazi State seems certain. The Allied forces, led by American general Dwight D. Eisenhower, are gaining control of Europe, leaving German leaders scrambling. Facing defeat, Adolf Hitler flees to a secret bunker with his mistress, Eva Braun, and his beloved dog, Blondi. It is there that all three will meet their fate, thus ending the Third Reich and one of the darkest chapters in modern history. Hitler's...
17) Wolf by wolf
Author
Series
Wolf by wolf volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"The first book in a duology about an alternate version of 1956 where the Axis powers won WWII, and hold an annual motorcycle race across their conjoined continents to commemorate their victory"-- Provided by publisher.
18) Secret honor
Author
Series
Honor bound volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
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