Perhaps most importantly, he also brilliantly uncovers the destructive personality that aimed for and achieved devastation on an unprecedented scale. Fest reveals the singularly penetrating politician, hypnotizing Germans and outsiders alike with the scope of his projects and the theatricality of their presentation. A bestseller in its original German edition and subsequently translated into more than a dozen languages, Joachim Fests Hitler as become a classic portrait.

His other works include Inside Hitlers Bunker (2005), Speer: The Final Verdict. Plotting Hitlers Death: The Story of German Resistance by Fest, Joachim and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at.

He shows Hitler exploiting the resentments of the shaken, post?World War I social order and seeing through all that was hollow behind the appearance of power, at home and abroad. His biography Hitler (1974) has been translated into more than twenty languages. The author tells and interprets the extraordinary story of a man?s and nation?s rise from impotence to absolute power, as Germany and Hitler, from shared premises, entered into their covenant. A bestseller in its original German edition and subsequently translated into more than a dozen languages, Joachim Fest?s Hitler has become a classic portrait of a man, a nation, and an era. Fest worked closely with Albert Speer as the editor of Inside the Third Reich and Spandau: The Secret Diaries. Black cloth boards and spine with tarnished gilt lettering on the spine. Joachim Fest is a highly acclaimed historian and journalist, and the author of several widely respected books on Nazi Germany, including The Face of the Third Reich, Plotting Hitler’s Death, and Speer. Fest was considered Germanys foremost historian on the Third Reich. Book Condition: Very Good moisture stain on textblock top waviness to last 50 pages near the spine. Conservative German historian Joachim Fest, the author of two influential books on Adolf Hitler, died at the age of 79 on Monday.

Hitler by Joachim Fest