![]() ![]() ![]() Now, Volker Ullrich, author of Hitler: Ascent 1889–1939, offers fascinating new insight into Hitler’s character and personality. ![]() Yet despite a series of stunning initial triumphs, Hitler’s fateful decision to invade the Soviet Union in 1941 turned the tide of the war in favor of the Allies. Beginning a war allowed Hitler to take his ideological obsessions to unthinkable extremes, including the mass genocide of millions, which was conducted not only with the aid of the SS, but with the full knowledge of German leadership. Having consolidated political control in Germany, he was at the helm of a newly restored major world power, and now perfectly positioned to realize his lifelong ambition: to help the German people flourish and to exterminate those who stood in the way. In the summer of 1939, Hitler was at the zenith of his power. ![]() “Skillfully conceived and utterly engrossing.” - The New York Times Book Review A riveting account of the dictator’s final years, when he got the war he wanted but led his nation, the world, and himself to catastrophe-from the author of Hitler: Ascent ![]()
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