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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Adolf Hitler spent 1924 away from society and surrounded by co-conspirators of the failed Beer Hall Putsch. Behind bars in a prison near Munich, Hitler passed the year with deep reading and intensive writing, a year of slowly walking gravel paths while working feverishly on his book Mein Kampf. This was the year of Hitler's final transformation into the self-proclaimed savior and infallible leader who would appropriate Germany's historical traditions...
2) Hitler
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Narrates the dictator's rise and fall, describing how by the force of his personality, political fanaticism, and superior abilities as an orator he became the leader of Germany and led his country into the devastation of World War II.
6) Bad company
Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Near the end of World War II, Hitler gave his personal diary to an aid for safekeeping. Containing minutes from a secret meeting between emissaries of Hitler and Roosevelt, it outlined plans to join forces against the Soviet Union. Ironically, the American representative was a direct relative of Jake Cazalet, the current U.S. president. Now this diary has become a powerful weapon.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
©2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Explores the life of the dangerous and destructive dictator Adolf Hitler whose aggressive foreign policies set off World War II and caused the deaths of over 6 million Jews. He committed heinous crimes against humanity worldwide.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Adolf Hitler's Nazi party is gaining strength and becoming more menacing every day. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor upset by the complacency of the German church toward the suffering around it, forms a breakaway church to speak out against the established political and religious authorities. When the Nazis outlaw the church, he escapes as a fugitive. Struggling to reconcile his faith and the teachings of the Bible with the Nazi Party's evil agenda,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Following their defeat during World War I, the Germans were looking for new leadership. Nazi Germany, also called the Third Reich, began when Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany under the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) whose followers were called Nazis. Why the Germans embraced the Nazis rise to power is examined in this thoughtful book, which includes panels featuring subject-matter expert opinions to encourage critical thinking....
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"Summer 1936: the eyes of the world were trained on Berlin, elaborately decked out for the Olympic Games. Aside from the swastikas unfurled inside and outside the massive stadium, visitors to the games saw scant evidence of a repressive regime. Nazi Germany and its unchallenged leader, Adolf Hitler, were on their best behavior. Yet, away from the spectacle in Berlin, an ominous war machine was in the making." "As Ian Kershaw opens this monumental...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy Austrian household. But this is no ordinary time, for it is 1935 and the Second World War is fast approaching; and this is no ordinary house, for this is the Berghof, the home of Adolf Hitler. Pierrot is quickly taken under Hitler's wing and thrown into an increasingly dangerous new world: a world of terror, secrets, and betrayal...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939--a riveting account of the dictator's final years, when he got the war he wanted but his leadership led to catastrophe for his nation, the world, and himself."-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Morgan Reynolds Pub
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Presents the private and public life of the Nazi dictator who involved Germany in the Second World War and tried to exterminate Jews and other citizens he considered undesirable. Adolf Hitler is best known as the man at the helm of the regime that instigated World War II and killed millions during the Holocaust. Born in 1889, and raised in the Bavarian region of Germany in a middle class home, young Hitler dreamed of defying his authoritarian father...
16) Hitler
Author
Publisher
Viking Kestrel
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the struggling Austrian artist who rose from obscurity to power as the leader of the Nazi party and, later, the German nation and whose ambitions led the world to war.
17) The taster
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Amid the turbulence of World War II, a young German woman finds a precarious haven closer to the source of danger than she ever imagined--one that will propel her through the extremes of privilege and terror under Hitler's dictatorship. In early 1943, Magda Ritter's parents send her to relatives in Bavaria, hoping to keep her safe from the Allied bombs strafing Berlin. Young German women are expected to do their duty--working for the Reich or marrying...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A comprehensive new biography of Hitler focusing on the dictator's personality"--Provided by publisher.
A New York Times 2016 Notable Book. A major new biography--an extraordinary, penetrating study of the man who has become the personification of evil. For all the literature about Adolf Hitler there have been just four seminal biographies; this is the fifth, a landmark work that sheds important new light on Hitler himself. Drawing on previously...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"By early 1945, the destruction of the German Nazi State seems certain. The Allied forces, led by American general Dwight D. Eisenhower, are gaining control of Europe, leaving German leaders scrambling. Facing defeat, Adolf Hitler flees to a secret bunker with his mistress, Eva Braun, and his beloved dog, Blondi. It is there that all three will meet their fate, thus ending the Third Reich and one of the darkest chapters in modern history. Hitler's...
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