Hitler: Legend, Myth & Reality (First English Edition)

English translation copyright 1973 by Harper & Row. Full year and number-line at last page beginning with 73 for year and 1 for printing. First published in Germany as Adolf Hitler: Legende, Mythos, Wirklichkeit, 1971. "The most important documenting on Hitler ever published." - Colin Wilson. Fine tan cloth boards, black horizontal spine titles, moderate shelf wear, bow. Pages near fine. Deep red textured endpapers. Bind good, square; hinges intact. Scarce wrapper, moderate edge wear, rub, adhesive; unclipped 12.50, protected in new clear sleeve. Near very good first printing in same wrapper. Includes detailed 23-page bibliography and 11-page index. 433 pages. Insured post. Translated from the German by Peter and Betty Ross. Includes: Contents; Map; Family Trees; Preface; Photos; Appendices; Chapter Notes; Bibliography; and Index. Werner Maser was Germany's foremost expert on Adolph Hitler and has had the German government's assistance in researching all sources. In this long awaited biography, the result of twenty years' study, Maser draws on an extensive range of archival and private material, much revealed for the first time." The success of Werner Maser's portrait is his attention to close detail. Much is new and his material tends to explain Hitler rather than explain him away. Maser uncovers the facts about Hitler's self-education from his Munich days. It will no longer be possible to dismiss Hitler's early successes as the product of fluke or demonic intuition." -JOHN CORNWELL, The Times Educational Supplement "The main merits of Maser's account lie in his concentration on the personal details of Hitler's life, his medical record, his amatory relations, his childhood and education, his career as an artist in Vienna and Munich, and his service in the Bavarian infantry in the first world war. Maser offers a historical study very close to definitive and indispensable to any future biographer."--DONALD WATT, Spectator. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.…