Hitler's Private Library

Elegantly written, meticulously researched, fascinating * Ian Kershaw *
Lively and entertaining survey of the dictator’s reading … a wealth of fascinating detail – Richard Overy * Sunday Telegraph *
Enlightening – Clive Sinclair, Book of the Week * Independent *
Ryback has made an original and interesting contribution to the study of this monster, not least by showing that, in some respects, he was just like many of the rest of us – Simon Heffer * Daily Telegraph *
Ryback’s…volume is unique in its focus on a limited number of books and in the forensic attention he lavishes on them – Bertrand Benoit * Financial Times Review *
the nicely observed snapshots of his private life in which books played so big a part make this biblio-biography far more interesting than it looked when I first picked it up – Peter Lewis * The Oldie *
Ryback has been able to draw a portrait of Hilter the reader, meticulous, critical and compulsive. – Alberto Manguel * Spectator *
A fine analysis of the reading habits of a man whom the historian Ian Kershaw has called ‘one of the most impenetrable personalities of modern history * Sunday Telegraph Magazine *
A fascinating exercise in historical deconstruction – Simon Shaw * Mail on Sunday *
Thoughtful and oddly intimate book – Mark Mazower * The Guardian *

Timothy W. Ryback is the author of The Last Survivor- Legacies of Dachau, a New York Times Notable Book for 1999, and he has written for The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. He is the co-founder of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague and the Deputy-Secretary General of the Academie Diplomatique Internationale in Paris, where he currently lives.

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