Hitler's Private Library Author:Timothy W. Ryback The Nazis may have been better known for burning books than for reading them, but literature played a significant role in the life and thinking of their leader. In Hitler?s Private Library, the remarkable book by Timothy W. Ryback, we are offered a whole new way to understand Adolf Hitler: by examining the books he most revered, and how they sha... more »ped his worldview.
Exploring hundreds of books from Hitler?s library recently discovered in the Library of Congress?many of them featuring handwritten notes and comments by the Fuhrer himself?Ryback explores Hitler?s early love for Shakespeare and Don Quixote, his intense study of the occult, the influence of Henry Ford?s anti-Semitic propaganda and Nietzsche?s philosophy and much more.« less