Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life

✍ Scribed by Ryback, Timothy W

• Book ID: 109721222
• Publisher: Random House
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781409075783

✦ Synopsis

He was, of course, a man better known for burning books than collecting them and yet by the time he died, aged 56, Adolf Hitler owned an estimated 16,000 volumes - the works of historians, philosophers, poets, playwrights and novelists.

For the first time, Timothy W. Ryback offers a systematic examination of this remarkable collection. The volumes in Hitler's library are fascinating in themselves but it is the marginalia - the comments, the exclamation marks, the questions and underlinings - even the dirty thumbprints on the pages of a book he read in the trenches of the First World War - which are so revealing.

Hitler's Private Library provides us with a remarkable view of Hitler's evolution - and unparalleled insights into his emotional and intellectual world. Utterly compelling, it is also a landmark in our understanding of the Third Reich.