This is an auction for HITLER'S PRIVATE LIBRARY: THE BOOKS THAT SHAPED HIS LIFE, by Timothy Ryback.

“Ryback’s portrait is both original and rewarding. . . . Certain to arouse widespread curiosity.”

• New York Review of Books

“Crisply written. . . . Thoroughly engrossing. . . . Fascinating—and unnerving.”

• Washington Post Book World

“Fascinating. . . . Hitler’s Private Library will appeal to anyone interested in what books mean to us, and is ‘must’ reading for anyone who doubts the power of written words to sway the human imagination toward good or evil.”

• Sacramento News & Review (A Best Book of 2008)

"Hitler's personal library of over 16,000 volumes was picked clean by American troops. But Ryback found 1200 of Hitler's volumes in the Library of Congress and other caches scattered through the U.S. and Europe. By looking at the books Hitler read (sometimes obsessively, judging from marginalia and other signs of wear and tear), Ryback paints an unusually vivid and nuanced portrait of the dictator. Among the authors and works Hitler was most interested in were Shakespeare (in translation), whose grand historical subjects, Hitler felt, made him superior to Schiller and Goethe; Henry Ford's anti-Semitic The International Jew; adventure novelist Karl May; Dietrich Eckart's interpretation of Ibsen's Peer Gynt; works of the occult and esoterica; and Thomas Carlyle, particularly his biography of Frederick the Great. Ryback (The Last Survivor: Legacies of Dachau) offers a unique view of Hitler's intellectual life."

• Publishers Weekly (US)

Large format paperback 2009.

276 pages including 47 illustrations.

Very good condition.

The cost of shipping is $4.95, or $6.95 by tracked mail. If you are on rural delivery and want tracked mail, the shipping cost will be $9.95.

There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Palmerston ?North following the auction.

Payment within seven days, please.