Kershaw's writing is masterly, and the individual works making up the biography, _Hubris_ and _Nemesis_, each deserve five stars. My three-star rating is aimed specifically at this one-volume edition: neither the jacket copy nor Amazon's description makes it clear that this is an abridgement, omitting ~650 pages from the original volumes and dropping all the endnotes. If you wa...(展开全部)

“Magisterial . . . anyone who wishes to understand the Third Reich must read Kershaw.”—Niall Ferguson “The Hitler biography of the twenty-first century” (Richard J. Evans), Ian Kershaw’s Hitler is a one-volume masterpiece that will become the standard work. From Hitler’s origins as a failed artist in fin-de-siècle Vienna to the terrifying last days in his Berlin bunker, Kers...(展开全部)

Kershaw's writing is masterly, and the individual works making up the biography, _Hubris_ and _Nemesis_, each deserve five stars. My three-star rating is aimed specifically at this one-volume edition: neither the jacket copy nor Amazon's description makes it clear that this is an abridgement, omitting ~650 pages from the original volumes and dropping all the endnotes. If you wa...(展开全部)

Based on previously unpublished documents, diaries, notes, photographs, and dramatic interviews with Hitler's colleagues and associates, this is the definitive biography of one of the most despised yet fascinating figures of the 20th century. Toland won the Pulitzer Prize in 1971 for The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945. 150 photographs; 3 maps...(展开全部)

From one of the most prominent biographers of the Nazi period, a new and provocative portrait of the figure behind the century's worst crimes Acclaimed historian Peter Longerich, author of Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler now turns his attention to Adolf Hitler in this new biography. While many previous portraits have speculated about Hitler's formative years, Longerich focuses on...(展开全部)

Éric Rohmer set the terms by which people watched, made, and thought about cinema for decades. This exhaustive biography uses personal archives and interviews to enrich our knowledge of Rohmer's public achievements and lesser known interests. Despite an austere approach to life, Rohmer had a voracious appetite for art, culture, and intellectual debate captured vividly in this d...(展开全部)

塞巴斯蒂安•哈夫纳（Sebastian Haffner），1907年生于柏林，逝于1999年，被公认为20世纪德国历史最重要的时代见证者之一。1938年移居英国担任记者，1954年以英国《观察家报》海外特派员的身份重返德国后，自1961年起先后为德国《世界报》《明星周刊》撰写政论专栏。哈夫纳著有一系列以历史为主题的畅销书，其中包括《解读希特勒》《从俾斯麦到希特勒》《不含传说的普鲁士》《一个德国人的故事：哈夫纳回忆录，1914—1933》等。

塞巴斯蒂安•哈夫纳（Sebastian Haffner），1907年生于柏林，逝于1999年，被公认为20世纪德国历史最重要的时代见证者之一。1938年移居英国担任记者，1954年以英国《观察家报》海外特派员的身份重返德国后，自1961年起先后为德国《世界报》《明星周刊》撰写政论专栏。哈夫纳著有一系列以历史为主题的畅销书，其中包括《解读希特勒》《从俾斯麦到希特勒》《不含传说的普鲁士》《一个德国人的故事：哈夫纳回忆录，1914—1933》等。

This story of Elizabeth Barrett Brownings cocker spaniel, Flush, enchants right from the opening pages. Although Flush has adventures of his own with bullying dogs, horrid maids, and robbers, he also provides the reader with a glimpse into Brownings life. Introduction by Trekkie Ritchie.

Virginia Woolf's exuberant `biography' tells the story of the cross-dressing, sex-changing Orlando who begins life as a young noble in the sixteenth century and moves through numerous historical and geographical worlds to finish as a modern woman writer in the 1920s. The book is in part a happy tribute to the `life' that her love for Vita Sackville-West had breathed into Virgin...(展开全部)