From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler seized power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and ruin In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse. One in three Germans was unemployed. Violence was rampant. Hitler's National Socialists surged at the polls. Paul von Hindenburg, an aging war hero and avowed monarchist, was a reluctant president bound by oath to uphold the constitution. The November elections offered Hitler the prospect of a Reichstag majority and the path to political power. But instead, the Nazis lost two million votes. As membership hemorrhaged and financial backers withdrew, the Nazi Party threatened to fracture. Hitler talked of suicide. The New York Times declared he was finished. Yet somehow, in a few brief weeks, he was chancellor of Germany.  In facinating detail and with previously un-accessed archival materials, Timothy W. Ryback tells the remarkable story of Hitler's dismantling of democracy through democratic process. He provides fresh perspective and insights into Hitler's personal and professional lives in these months, in all their complexity and uncertainty--backroom deals, unlikely alliances, stunning betrayals, an ill-timed tax audit, and a fateful weekend that changed our world forever. Above all, Ryback details why a wearied Hindenburg, who disdained the "Bohemian corporal," ultimately decided to appoint Hitler chancellor in January 1933. Within weeks, Germany was no longer a democracy.

In the relaxed atmosphere of his inner circle, Hitler talked freely about his aims, his early life and his plans for world conquest and a new German empire. The full text of Hitler's Table Talk as annotated and preserved by Bormann, is presented here. This book is the most significant record of Hitler's mind and character in existence. Revealing, for instance his thoughts on the English language which he though inferior to German as it 'lacks the ability to express thoughts that surpass the order of concrete things' to his hatred of idealism 'he found it quite normal that the bodies of his political prisoners should be burnt and their ashes used by his SS guards to manure their gardens'. A compelling and frequently repellent read. Hugh Trevor-Roper provides an Introduction on 'The Mind of Adolf Hitler' and a preface on developments since the book was first published in 1953.

"[W]ise, companionable, and often extremely funny.” ―Oliver Burkeman, The AtlanticBest-selling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik investigates a foundational human question: How do we learn―and master―a new skill? For decades now, Adam Gopnik has been one of our most beloved writers, a brilliantly perceptive critic of art, food, France, and more. But recently, he became obsessed by a more fundamental matter, one he had often meditated on in The New Yorker: How do masters learn their miraculous skill, whether it was drawing a museum-ready nude or baking a perfect sourdough loaf? How could anyone become so good at anything? There seemed to be a fundamental mystery to mastery. Was it possible to unravel it?In The Real Work―the term magicians use for the accumulated craft that makes for a great trick―Gopnik becomes a dedicated student of several masters of their craft: a classical painter, a boxer, a dancing instructor, a driving instructor, and others. Rejecting self-help bromides and bullet points, he nevertheless shows that the top people in any field share a set of common qualities and methods. For one, their mastery is always a process of breaking down and building up―of identifying and perfecting the small constituent parts of a skill and the combining them for an overall effect greater than the sum of those parts. For another, mastery almost always involves intentional imperfection―as in music, where vibrato, a way of not quite landing on the right note, carries maximum expressiveness. Gopnik’s simplest and most invigorating lesson, however, is that we are surrounded by mastery. Far from rare, mastery is commonplace, if we only know where to look: from the parent who can whip up a professional strudel to the social worker who―in one of the most personally revealing passages Gopnik has ever written―helps him master his own demons.Spirited and profound, The Real Work will help you understand how mastery can happen in your own life―and, significantly, why each of us relentlessly seeks to better ourselves in the first place.

Swami Vivekananda Philosophy Was A Blend Of The Traditional Values And Modern Thoughts, As Well As Human Values And Superhuman Thoughts. Although He Lived Only For Thirty-nine Years, He Influenced The Thinking Of Multitudes Around The World. His Charismatic Personality And Intellectual Speeches Made An Impact That Altered PeopleÕs Concept Of Hinduism And India Globally.Ê Even Today, His Teachings Are Capable Of Transforming All Who Are Keen To Imbibe Them. Vivekananda Was Born When Calcutta Was IndiaÕs Capital Under The British Raj. It Was A Time When The British Raj Sought To Change The Governing System Of India After The Mutiny Of 1857.ÊÊ Swami Vivekananda Preferred A Modern Approach To Deal With The Existing Social Problems And Favoured Western Ideas. This Book Tries To Cover The Life And Philosophy Of Swami Vivekananda Comprehensively And Give An Insight About His Personality.

Reissued with a striking new cover, the classic account of one of the most dramatic final acts in modern history: the collapse of the Third Reich. In this compelling new reconstruction, Germany's greatest historian of Nazism describes in vivid detail the claustrophobic atmosphere of the Fuhrer's bunker during the bitter last days of the war when, drugged and enfeebled, Hitler veered between hysterical despair and lunatic optimism while his regime disintegrated amid desperate acts of betrayal, recrimination and suicide.

Adolf Hitler was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, serving as dictator and leader of the Nazi Party, or National Socialist German Workers Party, for the bulk of his time in power.\\nHitler's fascist policies precipitated World War II and led to the genocide known as the Holocaust, which resulted in the deaths of some six million Jews and another five million noncombatants.\\n"If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!" - Adolf Hitler\\nThis is the descriptive, concise biography of Adolf Hitler.