Hitlerland

Andrew Nagorski

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World War II historian Andrew Nagorski recounts Adolf Hitler's rise to and consolidation of power, drawing on countless firsthand reports, letters, and diaries that narrate the creation of the Third Reich.

"Hitlerland is a bit of a guilty pleasure. Reading about the Nazis is not supposed to be fun, but Nagorski manages to make it so. Readers new to this story will find it fascinating" (The Washington Post).

Hitler's rise to power, Germany's march to the abyss, as seen through the eyes of Americans--diplomats, military officers, journalists, expats, visiting authors, Olympic athletes--who watched horrified and up close. "Engaging if chilling...a broader look at Americans who had a ringside seat to Hitler's rise" (USA TODAY), Hitlerland offers a gripping narrative full of surprising twists--and a startlingly fresh perspective on this heavily dissected era.

Book Details

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publish Date: Mar 19th, 2013
Pages: 400
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.33in - 5.55in - 1.01in - 0.78lb
EAN: 9781439191019
Categories: • Europe - Germany• Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General

About the Author

Nagorski, Andrew: - Andrew Nagorski served as Newsweek's bureau chief in Hong Kong, Moscow, Rome, Bonn, Warsaw, and Berlin. He is the author of seven previous critically acclaimed books, including Hitlerland and The Nazi Hunters. He has also written for countless publications. Visit him at AndrewNagorski.com.

Praise for this book

"Andrew Nagorski has written an entertaining chronicle...'Hitlerland' brings back to life some early delusions about Hitler's rise that now seem unthinkable. Any reader trying to puzzle out today's world will be unsettled by the reminder of how easy it is to get things wrong." "--The Economist"

"riveting....this is a book that is full of things I never knew, and I found all of them interesting. It should be on everybody's 'must read' list who is interested in history.""--The Daily Beast, Michael Korda"

"Hitlerland is a bit of guilty pleasure... fascinating."-"Washington Post

""Compulsively readable and deeply researched"-"The Weekly Standard

""A compelling work for World War II history buffs or anyone who wants to understand how such devastating evil emerged while the world seemingly watched""- Library Journal

""An engrossing study of the times made more fascinating and incredible in retrospect...contextually rich...[a] well marshaled study."- "Kirkus"

"Andrew Nagorski once again turns his perceptive, seasoned foreign correspondent's eye to a dramatic historical subject. This eye-opening account of the Americans in 1920s and 1930s Berlin offers a totally new perspective on a subject we thought we already knew. "

-Anne Applebaum, author of "Gulag: A History"

"Andrew Nagorski's "Hitlerland "is a fresh, compelling portrait of Nazi Germany, as seen through the eyes of a fascinating array of Americans who lived and worked there during Hitler's rise to power. The extraordinary saga of Putzi Hanfstaengl, a Harvard graduate who became Hitler's court jester, is just one of the many page-turning stories that makes "Hitlerland "a book not to be missed."

-Lynne Olson, author of "Citizens of London"

"The rise of Hitler and the Nazi state, one of the most consequential and profound narratives in all of world politics, receives compelling new treatment in Andrew Nagorski's outstanding "Hitlerland". By illuminating the disparate experiences of the era's preeminent American diplomats, journalists, intellectuals and others, Nagorski has created an engrossing, harrowing and vividly drawn mosaic of eyewitness accounts to one of history's most phenomenal catastrophes."

-Gordon M. Goldstein, author of "Lessons In Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam"

"Andrew Nagorski, a deft storyteller, has plumbed the dispatches, diaries, letters, and interviews of American journalists, diplomats and others who were present in Berlin to write a fascinating account of a fateful era."

-Henry Kissinger

"At times deliciously gossipy, at times thoroughly chilling, "Hitlerland" offers countless novel insights into Germany's evolution from struggling democracy in the 1920s to totalitarian dictatorship in the 1930s. The intimate portraits from Hitler down add an almost tangible sense of the foibles, ambitions, insecurities and perversities of the relatively small top Nazi elite whose actions plunged our world into a catastrophe from which we are yet fully to recover. The Americans themselves come alive as a group of intense, enterprising journalists and diplomats faced with the greatest challenge of their lives."

-Misha Glenny, author of "The Balkans 1804-1999 "