Tough-minded evaluation of Hitler's career...That this book was a best-seller in Germany [43 weeks] indicates that Haffner's countrymen welcomed this compact, lucid, hard-headed reexamination of contemporary history.
   --Publishers Weekly

Sebastian Haffner's book already has received recognition...as perhaps the best that has dealt with the phenomenon of Hitler and his impact on the 20th century. It is better than Trevor-Roper's best-seller, The Last Days of Hitler...a most penetrating analysis of what Hitler was up to in his astonishing career.
   --The New Republic

Ewald Osers is the distinguished translator of numerous works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from German and Czech, including the correspondence of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

Read More by Ewald Osers:

• Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil
• Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy