Young Hitler
The Making of the Fuhrer
$32.00
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
29 October 2017
Summary
When Adolf Hitler went to war in 1914, aged 25, he lived through what he would later call the ‘most stupendous experience of my life’. Twice decorated for bravery, the future dictator thrilled to battle, relished violence and was willing to give everything for his beloved Fatherland.
He heard of Germany’s defeat as he lay immobilised in a hospital bed, temporarily blinded from mustard gas. He opened his eyes on a terrible new world, of Germany’s loss and humiliation, the flight of the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143786559 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143786555 |
| Author: | Paul Ham |
| Publisher: | Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | William Heinemann Australia |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2017 |
| Weight: | 455g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 145mm x 32mm |
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About The Author
Paul Ham
Paul Ham is the author of 12 books, including:
- Passchendaele - Requiem for Doomed Youth (2016)
- 1914 - The Year the World Ended (2013)
- Hiroshima Nagasaki (2011)
- Vietnam - The Australian War (2007)
- Kokoda (2004)
Passchendaele won the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction. Hiroshima Nagasaki was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for History and is being made into a 6-part TV series by an American-British-Australian production team. Vietnam won the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for Australian History and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award (2008). Kokoda was shortlisted for the Walkley Award for Non-Fiction and the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for Non-Fiction.
Sandakan - The Untold Story of the Sandakan Death Marches, was published in 2012 and was also shortlisted for the 2013 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for History.
A former Sunday Times correspondent, with a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics, Paul lives in Paris and devotes his time to writing history and (when possible) to teaching Narrative History at Sciences Po, France’s preeminent tertiary school for the humanities.
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