Hitler Audiobook By Joachim C. Fest, Richard Winstton - translator, Clara Winstton - translator cover art

Hitler

 Preview

Audible Standard 30-day free trial

Try Standard free
Select 1 audiobook a month from our entire collection of titles.
Yours as long as you’re a member.
Get unlimited access to bingeable podcasts.
Standard auto renews for $8.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Hitler

By: Joachim C. Fest, Richard Winstton - translator, Clara Winstton - translator
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Try Standard free

$8.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $30.76

Buy for $30.76

This masterful biography by one of Germany’s best known journalists was the leading nonfiction best seller in Germany. Fest shows Hitler as the receptacle of the dreads and resentments of a shaken social order, gifted with an uncanny instinct for all that was hollow behind the appearance of power, at home and abroad. Though a warped human being, he was neither clown nor puppet, as many liked to think; Hitler appears here as an enormously astute politician, impressing and hypnotizing Germans and foreigners alike with the scope of his projects and the theatricality of their presentation. In the last analysis, however, Fest uncovers in Hitler a constantly destructive personality, which aimed at and achieved destruction on an unprecedented scale, not least because an insecure world gave him his opportunities.

©1991 Classics on Tape (P)1991 Blackstone Audio, Inc. World War II Politics & Activism Europe Germany War Politicians Wars & Conflicts Historical Biographies & Memoirs Military Soviet Union Imperialism Socialism
All stars
Most relevant
I have read several books about this era and about Hitler but this one was definitely the best by a good measure. 1 of the things that separates this from others is that he was far enough removed from that time enabling him to have an objectivity lacking in varying degrees in other books. The other thing this offers which I appreciated was to focus almost solely on the period before World War II as that has been covered almost to exhaustion at this point. People looking for a book on World War II or on his actions during the war should probably look elsewhere.

Best book on Hitler and era

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Fest has explained, better than any other author I have read, Hitler the man. I came away with a far better understanding of one of the 20th century’s most influential, not for the better, persons.

Who was Hitler?

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The best biography among multiple contenders. Beautifully written (and translated), deeply thoughtful, and captures the frightening, appalling time with a chilling immediacy. Read expertly by Davidson.

The best biography

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Davidson is at his finest.

His narration lends a nigh comical touch to Hitlers unquenchable thirst for power and bloodshed.

Hitler is truly a RIDICULOUS person.

It’s like Game of Thrones, but with an all-male cast.

The best Hitler biography I’ve ev

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
should be part of h.s. curriculum. Very educational. Excellent narration. In depth and much appreciated.

Should be part of high school education

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews