Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (581 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300187726 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Robert Gerwarth is professor of modern history at University College Dublin and director of UCD’s Centre for War Studies.
"Awesome and disturbing biography" according to sully. It is an extraordinary biography which could cause me to not be able to sleep at night while I thought about what I had read. "Hitler's Hangman" is such a biography. You have no need to see horror movies or read horror fiction. A mere 70 years ago a man was implementing a system of mass murder and horror that no. Michael Atamian said Well-researched and objective biography of Heydrich. I have always found Reinhard Heydrich to be one of the more fascinating personalities from World War II. He was the only senior Nazi targeted for assassination during the war, yet most people nowadays do not even know his name. The author takes a very factual approach to the life of Heydrich and lets the reader . "Well Written And Well Researched" according to Amazon Customer. The author clearly spent a lot of time researching the book as its quite detailed and seems to contain information about Heydrich's family dynamics that I'd not previously heard nor read. It's also one that keeps you fairly well engaged, though there are more than a few times it was hard to keep pushing through
There have been lives written before, but nothing to match the exceptional way that Peter Longerich and Robert Gerwarthhave gone about digging in the sources to root these two awful figures more firmly in the context that gave rise to some of the worst crimes of the modern age. Pleasingly, he is not shy of indulging in a few dramatic flourishes when the material and the circumstances allow, making this a history book that one can genuinely read almost in a single sitting He has succeeded admirably in remedying the lack of a scholarly biography of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most pivotal and influential figures in the history of the Third Reich. It is unlikely that either of these biographies will be bettered."--Richard Overy, "The Sunday Telegraph "(reviewed with 'Heinrich Himmler: A
Gerwarth weaves together little-known stories of Reinhard Heydrich's private life with his deeds as head of the Nazi Reich Security Main Office, exploring his progression from privileged middle-class youth to rapacious mass murderer.