Supersedes all previous accounts. It is the sort of masterly biography that only a firstt-rate historian can write'David Cannaine,Observe,Books of the yeaar.The Hitler biography for the 21st century ... cool, judicious, factually reliable and intelligently argued ... Kershaw triumphantly succeeds in showing that Hitler's rise to supreme power depended not just on his own talents, nor on the nature of German society, but on the interaction of the two' Richard Evans,Sunday Telegraph.

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

Reflecting on Hitler

1 Fantasy and Failure

2 Drop-out

3 Elation and Embitterment

4 Discovering a Talent

5 The Beerhall Agitator

6 The 'Drummer'

7 Emergence of the Leader

8 Mastery over the Movement

9 Breakthrough

10 Levered into Power

11 The Making of the Dictator

12 Securing Total Power

13 Working Towards the Fuhrer

Glossary of Abbreviations

Notes

List of Works Cited

Index