Hitler'S Private Library Av Timothy W. Ryback

<p>He was, of course, a man better known for burning books than collecting them and yet by the time he died, aged 56, <b>Adolf</b><b>Hitler owned an estimated 16,000 volumes </b>- the works of historians, philosophers, poets, playwrights and novelists. <br><br>For the first time, Timothy W. Ryback offers a systematic examination of this remarkable collection. The volumes in Hitler''s library are fascinating in themselves but it is the marginalia - the comments, the exclamation marks, the questions and underlinings - even the dirty thumbprints on the pages of a book he read in the trenches of the First World War - which are so revealing.<br><br><i>Hitler''s Private Library</i> provides us with a remarkable view of Hitler''s evolution - and unparalleled insights into his emotional and intellectual world. Utterly compelling, it is also a landmark in our understanding of the Third Reich.</p>