书名：Hitler希特勒传
作者：Ian Kershaw
出版社名称：Penguin
出版时间：2010
语种：英文
ISBN：9780141035888
商品尺寸：13 x 5.1 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：1072
Hitler《希特勒传》一书是英国著名历史学家伊恩•克肖（Ian Kershaw）积30年第三帝国研究之功，历时12载而成的皇皇巨著，也是完整介绍希特勒一生的传记作品，甫一问世即在西方学术界引起轰动，获英国沃尔夫森历史学奖、奥地利布鲁诺·克莱斯基政治图书奖、英国年度学术图书奖等重要奖项，被誉为第三帝国研究史上的里程碑著作。

伊恩•克肖在本书中，不仅参考了浩如烟海的研究著作，还去伪存真地利用了许多珍贵的一手史料，如纳粹宣传部长《戈培尔的日记》、与希特勒交往甚密者的回忆录等，力图让全书言之有理、客观公允。与此同时，作者长于叙事，行文流畅，人物刻画更是极为细腻，相信读来绝无一般学术著作的艰涩枯燥之感。

媒体评论：
伊恩·克肖所著的《希特勒》必将成为我们这个时代有关希特勒生平传记中的经典……他意义非凡地改变了以往传记作家们对希特勒及其思想行为观察的视角。——《纽约书评杂志》戈尔顿·A·克雷格
 
汲取了德国人的创作成就后，该书作出了对希特勒敏锐的评价。——《华尔街日报》

一个令人吃惊的成就……伊恩·克肖的《希特勒》凌驾于先前诸位传记作家的优势在于，自1945年以来，随着时光的流逝，使得我们可以这样考察希特勒：与其把他视为德国与历史的产物，不如将他看做一个隐约在当今以及今后可以预见历史时代的人物。——《新政治》理查德·果特

一部急需的、趣味盎然的，迄今为止很棒的传记。——《华盛顿邮报》

鸿篇巨著……它甚至具备了高等的学术水平，成就了一篇名副其实的绝妙散文。它确定了伊恩·克肖在相关题材方面英语作家的声誉。——（伦敦）《标准晚报》尼奥尔·费尔古森

文学领域一个罕见的成就……它的阅读节奏使人着迷。我们可能永远也不能完全理解希特勒，伊恩·克肖却给每一位试图解释希特勒的作家提供了如此众多的重要线索。——《晨星电报》Ft.沃斯

Now available in a single, abridged paperback, Ian Kershaw's Hitler is the definitive biography of the Nazi leader.
Ian Kershaw's two volume biography, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis, was greeted with universal acclaim as the essential work on one of the most malign figures in history, from his earliest origins to the final days of the Second World War.
Now this landmark historical work is available in one single, abridged edition, tracing the story of how a bitter, failed art student from an obscure corner of Austria rose to unparalleled power, destroying the lives of millions and bringing the world to the brink of Armageddon.

Review
Supersedes all previous accounts. It is the sort of masterly biography that only a first-rate historian can write (David Cannadine Observer)

The Hitler biography for the twenty-first century(Richard Evans Sunday Telegraph)

I cannot imagine a better biography of this great tyrant emerging for a long while
(Jeremy Paxman)

Magisterial ... anyone who wishes to understand the Third Reich must read Kershaw, for no one has done more to lay bare Hitler's morbid psyche (Niall Ferguson Sunday Telegraph)
Hitler《希特勒传》这本巨著没有奇怪的解释，没有心理分析，而是用新挖掘的史实，彻底颠覆了人们对第三帝国的认识！此书被誉为“对希特勒现象的解释”，“所有已问世的关于这位德国大独裁者的传记中令人信服的一本”。此书刚一问世就被《纽约时报》作为编辑推荐书强力推荐！

这一恢弘巨著向人们说明了这样一个史实：希特勒是怎样赢得德国“人心”，怎样获取并行使其权力的。为什么世界上强大的国家竟会听命于一种高度个人化的统治，而这种统治竟赢得数百万计的人们的欢呼。人们因为一个人的意志而不能自拔，而此人正带领他们沿着毁灭的道路准确无误地走下去。一个现代国家的公民如何变成种族灭绝的同谋者，并导致举国上下发动的大规模屠杀。整个大陆遭受破败，他们的国家也终为颠覆。

作者指出，德国人民造就了希特勒狂妄的个性。德国人民进行了历史命运中的一次赌博，而赌博的目的——对欧洲大陆的完全支配，是驱使他们铤而走险的诱因，他们必须承担由此产生的后果。站在今天，重读历史，此次赌博本身就意味着自我的毁灭。
伊恩·克肖生于1943年，曾就读于利特浦大学和牛津大学。1968至1989年之间，他先后执教于曼彻斯特大学和诺丁汉大学。自1989年起，成为英国谢菲尔德大学的现代史教授。他是当今世界上在纳粹主义研究处于领导地位的慕尼黑当代历史所的研究纳粹德国的著名专家，也是享有盛誉的“BBC纳粹分子系列报道”的历史顾问。是世界范围内研究希特勒的领军人物之一，是重要的希特勒传记家之一。

IAN KERSHAW is the author of Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris; Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis; Making Friends with Hitler; and Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-4. Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis received the Wolfson History Prize and the Bruno Kreisky Prize in Austria for Political Book of the Year, and was joint winner of the inaugural British Academy Book Prize. Until his retirement in 2008, Ian Kershaw was Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield. For services to history he was given the German award of the Federal Cross of Merit in 1994. He was knighted in 2002 and awarded the Norton Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2004. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.
The first of many strokes of good fortune for Adolf Hitler took place thirteen years before he was born. In 1876, the man who was to become his father changed his name from Alois Schickigruber to Alois Hitler. Adolf can be believed when he said that nothing his father had done had pleased him so much as to drop the coarsely rustic name of Schickigruber. Certainly, ‘Heil Schickigruber’ would have sounded an unlikely salutation to a national hero.
The Schicklgrubers had for generations been a peasant family, small- holders in the Waldviertel, a picturesque but poor, hilly and (as the name suggests) woody area in the most north-westerly part of Lower Austria, bordering on Bohemia, whose inhabitants had something of a reputation for being dour, hard-nosed, and unwelcoming. Hitler’s father, Alois, had been born there on 7 June i 837, in the village of Strones, as the illegitimate child of Maria Anna Schickigruher, then forty-one years old and daughter of a poor smaliholder, Johann Schicklgruber, and baptized (as Aloys Schicklgruber) in nearby Döllersheim the same day.
Hitler’s father was the first social climber in his family. In 1855, by the time he was eighteen, Alois had gained employment at a modest grade with the Austrian ministry of finance. For a young man of his background and limited education, his advancement in the years to come was impressive. After training, and passing the necessary examination, he attained low-ranking supervisory status in 1861 and a position in the customs service in 1864, becoming a customs officer in 1870 before moving the following year to Braunau am Inn, and attaining the post of customs inspector there in 1875.
A year later came the change of name. Alois, the social climber, may have preferred the less rustic form of ‘Hitler’ (a variant spelling of ‘Hiedler’, otherwise given as ‘Hietler’, ‘Hüttler’, ‘Hutler’, meaning ‘smaliholder’, the surname of Johann Georg Hiedler, who had later married Alois’s mother, apparently acknowledging paternity). At any rate, Alois seemed well satisfied with his new name, and from the final authorization in January 1877 always signed himself ‘Alois Hitler’. His son was equally pleased with the more distinctive form ‘Hitler’.