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The Meaning of Hitler by Sebastian Haffner (translated from the German by Ewald Osers; 53,000 words)

In this succinct, fact-based, insightful analysis of Hitler and his impact on the world, Sebastian Haffner displays his skills as a first-class journalist and a student of German and modern European history. A keen psychologist, he describes the man, the politician, the ideologue, the military leader, the mass-murderer, and ultimately the traitor to his own (adopted) country.

Mr Haffner ... has exposed better, and more briefly, than anyone else the clockwork of that infernal machine Gordon Brook-Shepherd, Sunday Telegraph

Lucid, informative and provocative. Golo Mann, Der Spiegel

Nothing I have read on the Third Reich has been as valuable as Sebastian Haffners Meaning of Hitler Manfred Rommel, Stuttgarter Nachrichten

a stimulating book, brilliant and rich in ideas; in short a masterpiece of historical essay writing. Joachim Fest, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

This study ... deserves the highest praise. There is nothing of this brevity and depth to inform the younger generation and give those who lived through the era food for thought. Peter Diehl-Thiele, Süddeutsche Zeitung

He circumnavigates the Hitler phenomenon in order to illuminate it from seven different viewpoints, and that in under 200 lucid and precise pages without assuming any prior knowledge. Peter Graf Kielmansegg, Münchner Merkur

not one more biography but an analysis - a most penetrating analysis - of what Hitler was up to in his astonishing career A.L. Rowse

Sebastian Haffners 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-Ropers best-seller, The Last Days of Hitler ... a most penetrating analysis of what Hitler was up to in his astonishing career. The New Republic

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

Until 1991, as Sebastian Haffner wrote in his short, matchless book The Meaning of Hitler (1978), we had been living in the Europe which Hitler created for us: the split continent and the mutilated, divided Germany. Neal Ascherson, The Observer

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The Meaning of Hitler

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