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Defying Hitler by Sebastian Haffner
Category: Biography Memoir
Sebastian Haffner was a non-Jewish German who emigrated to England in 1938. This memoir (written in 1939) begins in 1914 when the family summer holiday is cut short by the outbreak of war, and ends with Hitler's assumption of power in 1933. Hardback
Defying Hitler: A Memoir by Sebastian Haffner
Category: Biography
A memoir on the rise of Nazism in Germany and the lives of ordinary German citizens between the two world wars finds the author witnessing such developments as the rise of the First Free Corps, the Hitler Youth movement and Stresemann years, and Hitler's coming to power. Reprint. 15,000 first printi
Defying Hitler - A Memoir by Sebastian Haffner; Oliver Pretzel (translator)
Category: Military
This memoir begins in 1914 when the family summer holiday is cut short by the outbreak of war, and ends with Hitler's assumption of power in 1933. It is a portrait of the author and his own generation in Germany, those born between 1900 and 1910, and explains through his own experiences and those of his ...Show more
Germany: Jekyll and Hyde by Sebastian Haffner
Category: History
A few years ago, Sebastian Haffner's Defying Hitler, a memoir about growing up in interwar Germany, sold over forty thousand copies. After he moved to Britain in the 1930s Haffner became so shocked about the situation in his native country that he wrote this book, Germany : Jekyll and Hyde, in an effort ...Show more
The Meaning of Hitler by Sebastian Haffner
Category: Military History | Series: Phoenix Giants Ser.
Sebastian Haffner examines Hitler's lifespan, his performance, his successes, errors, intellectual misconceptions, crimes and, last but not least, his great betrayal of his nation, the Western world and human civilisation. 'What makes Haffner's book different is that it is not one more biography but an ...Show more
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