The Hitler of history - John Lukacs

Since 1945 there have been over a hundred biographies of Hitler. What happens when so many people reinterpret the life of a single individual? Does Hitler emerge as a mythic anti-hero whose crimes and errors blur behind an aura of power and conquest? By making Hitler?s biographers ? rather than Hitler himself ? the subject of inquiry, Lukacs reveals the contradictions that take us back to the true Hitler of history. By examining those ? like the controversial historian David Irving ? who have been involved in a `rehabilitation? of Hitler, Lukacs draws powerful conclusions about Hitler?s differences from other monsters of history, such as Napoleon, Mussolini and Stalin.
As the New York Times said of this book: ?Surprising, even shocking... Mr Lukacs arrives at [his conclusions] with painstaking, exhaustive logic that is hard to resist.?