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Good in Poor jacket. xiii, [1], 433 pages. Map. Family Trees. Occasional footnotes. Appendices (including A Chronology). Notes and references. Bibliography. Index. The dust jacket is notably stained. The book covers have slight staining and interior pages appear unaffected. DJ wrinkled & stained: small tears. Werner Maser (12 July 1922, Paradeningken-5 April 2007) was a German historian, journalist and professor at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. Maser was the first historian to claim that the Hitler Diaries were forgeries. During the Second World War he served in the German Army as an infantry officer. After Germany's defeat, Maser was interned by the Soviets in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. After his release, he studied theology, philosophy and political science at Berlin, Munich and Erlangen. His doctoral thesis was titled The Organization of the Führer Legend. Maser was appointed professor of history at the University of Munich and he was also a guest professor at universities in America, Japan and Finland. He discovered Hitler's medical records, which had been thought lost. During the late 1970s Maser claimed that Hitler had fathered a son (Jean-Marie Loret) with a French peasant dancer in 1918. He was a critic of the works of Alan Bullock and Sebastian Haffner. In his 1994 work Der Wortbruch: Hitler, Stalin und der Zweite Weltkrieg ("The Broken Agreement: Hitler, Stalin and the Second World War"), Maser argued that the Soviets were preparing to invade Germany and that Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union pre-empted the planned Soviet invasion of Germany by two weeks. The success of Werner Maser's portrait is owed to his attention to close detail. There is much in his book that is new, and his material tends to explain Hitler rather than explain him away. Above all, Maser uncovers the real facts about Hitler's self-education from the Munich days....After Maser's work it will no longer be possible to dismiss Hitler's early successes as the product of fluke or demonic intuition."-JOHN CORNWELL, The Times Educational Supplement. "The main merits of Maser's account lie in his concentration on the personal details of Hitler's life, his medical record, his amatory relations, his childhood and education, his career as an artist in Vienna and Munich, his service in the Bavarian infantry in the First World War. Here he has provided what must be fairly close to a definitive version. His work must be indispensable to any future biographer."--DONALD WATT, Spectator. "The most important document on Hitler so far published."-COLIN WILSON. In an on-line comment from an independent reviewer: A great insight into the life of Adolf Hitler as well as separating truths from myths. I was very surprised at the wealth of new information within this book. Especially in regards to Hitler's parents. In spite of it being 50+ years since it's publication (as of 2024), there has been no other publication beyond it's first in 1973. A shame to see such a valuable resource become lost to time.
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Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. 1st Printing. Slight foxing (tan spotting) to top edge of text block. Slight bumps to top corners. Otherwise near fine, no markings, no bookplate, no remainder mark. In very good dust jacket with no jacket chips. Minor edge wear with a few tiny edge tears. Not price-clipped. Slight toning to jacket. True first printing of American edition with first edition statement on copyright page and full number code with "1" in string on last page.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" Tall. English translation copyright 1973 by Harper & Row. Full year and number-line at last page beginning with 73 for year and 1 for printing. First published in Germany as Adolf Hitler: Legende, Mythos, Wirklichkeit, 1971. "The most important documenting on Hitler ever published."-Colin Wilson. Fine tan cloth boards, black horizontal spine titles, moderate shelf wear, bow. Pages near fine. Deep red textured endpapers. Bind good, square; hinges intact. Scarce wrapper, moderate edge wear, rub, adhesive; unclipped 12.50, protected in new clear sleeve. Near very good first printing in same wrapper. Includes detailed 23-page bibliography and 11-page index. 433 pages. Insured post. Translated from the German by Peter and Betty Ross. Includes: Contents; Map; Family Trees; Preface; Photos; Appendices; Chapter Notes; Bibliography; and Index. Werner Maser was Germany's foremost expert on Adolph Hitler and has had the German government's assistance in researching all sources. In this long awaited biography, the result of twenty years' study, Maser draws on an extensive range of archival and private material, much revealed for the first time." The success of Werner Maser's portrait is his attention to close detail. Much is new and his material tends to explain Hitler rather than explain him away. Maser uncovers the facts about Hitler's self-education from his Munich days. It will no longer be possible to dismiss Hitler's early successes as the product of fluke or demonic intuition."-JOHN CORNWELL, The Times Educational Supplement "The main merits of Maser's account lie in his concentration on the personal details of Hitler's life, his medical record, his amatory relations, his childhood and education, his career as an artist in Vienna and Munich, and his service in the Bavarian infantry in the first world war. Maser offers a historical study very close to definitive and indispensable to any future biographer."--DONALD WATT, Spectator.