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One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history?The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless contempt for the most basic norms. At the summit of these societies were leaders whose personalities had somehow given them the ability to do whatever they wished.Ian Kershaw's new book is a compelling, lucid and challenging attempt to understand these rulers, whether operating on the widest stage (Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini) or with a more national impact (Tito, Franco). What was it about these leaders and the times they lived in that allowed them such untrammelled and murderous power? And what brought that era to an end? In a contrasting group of profiles, from Churchill to de Gaulle, Adenauer to Gorbachev, and Thatcher to Kohl, Kershaw uses his exceptional skills to think through how other, strikingly different figures wielded power.

One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history?The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless contempt for the most basic norms. At the summit of these societies were leaders whose personalities had somehow given them the ability to do whatever they wished.Ian Kershaw's new book is a compelling, lucid and challenging attempt to understand these rulers, whether operating on the widest stage (Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini) or with a more national impact (Tito, Franco). What was it about these leaders and the times they lived in that allowed them such untrammelled and murderous power? And what brought that era to an end? In a contrasting group of profiles, from Churchill to de Gaulle, Adenauer to Gorbachev, and Thatcher to Kohl, Kershaw uses his exceptional skills to think through how other, strikingly different figures wielded power.

In queste pagine Ian Kershaw ricostruisce la parabola delluomo che trascino il mondo ben oltre lorlo del baratro e lo fa con rigore appassionato e indiscussa autorita.Considerata una pietra miliare degli studi su Adolf Hitler e sul Terzo Reich, questopera monumentale, pubblicata per la prima volta in due volumi tra il 1998 e il 2000, e il racconto spaventoso e affascinante di come un misero provinciale venuto da un angolo remoto dellAustria asburgica sia riuscito a conquistare un potere senza precedenti; di come le idee improbabili e spregevoli di un ex studente darte perdigiorno siano riuscite a saldarsi in unideologia che per dodici anni segno il destino di milioni di persone; e di come la folle determinazione a imporre militarmente la sua volonta e a respingere i suoi molti nemici abbia scatenato una catastrofe genocida. In queste pagine Ian Kershaw ricostruisce la parabola delluomo che trascino il mondo ben oltre lorlo del baratro e lo fa con rigore appassionato e indiscussa autorita.

This biography provides an understanding of Hitler and the catastrophic sequence of events which allowed him to become the leader of Germany. It conveys why so many Germans adored Hitler, connived with him or felt powerless to resist him.

En este Segundo volumen, Ian Kershaw hace un repaso de las decisiones más demagógicas y sanguinarias de Hitler, hasta su muerte en 1945, y propone explicar de qué modo éste pudo llegar a ejercer el poder absoluto con la aquiescencia y el beneplacito de los ciudadanos de su pais, que se dejaron arrastrar a una guerra genocida, al asesinato en masa y a la propia devastacion.

Primer volumen de la biografía que recrea, con una destreza y una intensidad extraordinarias, el mundo que primero frustró y luego nutrió al joven Hitler, desde sus raíces provincianas de la Austria de los Habsburgo hasta la Viena de preguerra, desde el crisol de la Gran Guerra hasta aquel mundo politico virulento de la Baviera de los años veinte. Mientras la fantasia en apariencia lastimosa de que Hitler fue el salvador de Alemania atraia cada vez mas apoyo, Kershaw explica con brillantez por que tantos alemanes lo adoraron, fueron complices de el o se sintieron impotentes para ser sus oponentes; y tambien en cuantos momentos las elites alemanas pudieron haber impedido su ascension, pero como se equivocaron en sus juicios sobre el monstruo que vivia con ellos....hasta que fue demasiado tarde.

Following the enormous success of Hitler: Hubris this book triumphantly completes one of the great modern biographies. No figure in twentieth century history more clearly demands a close biographical understanding than Adolf Hitler; and no period is more important than the Second World War. Beginning with Hitler's startling European successes in the aftermath of the Rhinelland occupation and ending nine years later with the suicide in the Berlin bunker, Kershaw allows us as never before to understand the motivation and the impact of this bizarre misfit. He addresses the crucial questions about the unique nature of Nazi radicalism, about the Holocaust and about the poisoned European world that allowed Hitler to operate so effectively.

Ian Kershaw's Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris allows us to come closer than ever before to a serious understanding of the man and of the catastrophic sequence of events which allowed a bizarre misfit to climb from a Viennese dosshouse to leadership of one of Europe's most sophisticated countries. With extraordinary skill and vividness, drawing on a huge range of sources, Kershaw recreates the world which first thwarted and then nurtured the young Hitler. As his seemingly pitiful fantasy of being Germany's saviour attracted more and more support, Kershaw brilliantly conveys why so many Germans adored Hitler, connived with him or felt powerless to resist him.

La biografía definitiva de Hitler. Kershaw es uno de los historiadores más importantes sobre el período nazi, sobre Hitler y la Segunda Guerra Mundial.