Adolf Hitler: Evolution of a Dictator

A bloody dictator, failed artist, passionate lover and instigator of the most extreme genocide in history, Adolf Hitler stamped the 20th century with force and brutality, creating a totalitarian regime of tremendous cruelty. This book recounts the history of him and the Third Reich, retracing his political and public life and his intimate and family ties, from his infancy in Braunau and Linz, through the tortured events of his Viennese youth, his experiences at the front in the Great War, his discovery of his political vocation in Munich, his theories of violence as a means of conquest and maintaining power, the writing of Mein Kampf and execution of his political and military ambitions, and the end of the Nazi adventure in the bunker in Berlin.