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1924: The Year That Made Hitler

1924: The Year That Made Hitler

by PeterRossRange (Author)

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    Hardcover 2016

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Synopsis

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 and bring them into his vision for the Third Reich.

Until now, no one has devoted an entire book to the single, dark year of Hitler's incarceration following his attempted coup. Peter Ross Range richly depicts this year that bore to the world a monster.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 336
 Edition: 1st Edition
 Publisher: Little, Brown US
Published: 26 Jan 2016
ISBN 10: 0316384038
ISBN 13: 9780316384032

Media Reviews
Range -let[s] this all-too-human but unique story tell itself... Successfully recreates the atmosphere of postwar Bavaria that helped to -make- Hitler, and charts the unprecedented impact this engineering, enigmatic figure was making.---Anthony Mostrom, The Los Angeles Review of Books
Hundreds of historians, perhaps thousands, have set out to explain how Hitler became Hitler -- but none have succeeded nearly so well, or so brilliantly, as Peter Ross Range. 1924: The Year That Made Hitler now stands front-and-center among those great works that, through a narrative that is both granular and compelling, finally explains one of the great mysteries of our era. Range's deft portrait clicks into place the final necessary nugget in one of our time's darkest eras and provides us with a biographical portrait that is chilling to read -- but that we dare not ignore. --Mark Perry, author of The Most Dangerous Man in America: The Making of Douglas MacArthur
Descriptive and portentous, Range's is an excellent account of perhaps the critical period in the Hitler saga. --Gilbert Taylor, Booklist
Range's deep knowledge of the figures and events enables him to narrate clearly without being sucked into excessive explication. A lucid description of a year that made all the horror possible, even inevitable. --Kirkus Reviews
A lively account... Range tells his story well, offering choice details. --Andrew Nagorski, Washington Post
Range let[s] this all-too-human but unique story tell itself... Successfully recreates the atmosphere of postwar Bavaria that helped to make Hitler, and charts the unprecedented impact this engineering, enigmatic figure was making. --Anthony Mostrom, The Los Angeles Review of Books
This book could not be more necessary, as Germany prepares to re-publish Mein Kampf for the first time in 70 years. Range gives us a fluent narrative of Hitler's 13 months in prison, where he wrote his political testament. Eminently readable. --Ronald Rosbottom, author of When Paris Went Dark
How did it happen? That's the fateful question that veteran journalist Peter Ross Range asks. With verve, he takes us into the diabolical rise of Adolf Hitler in the pivotal year of 1924, by turns a horrifying yet important story. --Jay Winik, author of 1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History and April 1865
Occasionally, a year draped in defeat becomes a year of personal triumph that alters the course of history. Peter Ross Range deftly argues that 1924 was such a year for Adolf Hitler, with catastrophic results for the world. --Walter R. Borneman, author of The Admirals and MacArthur at War
Range deserves credit for brilliantly and concisely bringing this important slice of history to visibility. --Bill Hughes, Baltimore Post-Examiner
Author Bio
Peter Ross Range is a world-traveled journalist who has covered war, politics and international affairs. A specialist in Germany, he has written extensively for Time, The New York Times, National Geographic, the Sunday Times Magazine, Playboy, and U.S. News & World Report, where he was a White House correspondent. He has also been an Institute of Politics Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington; and a Distinguished International Visiting Fellow at the University of North Carolina Journalism School. He lives in Washington, DC.