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Peter Ross Range

Auteur van 1924: The Year That Made Hitler

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Peter Ross Range is a journalist who has covered war, politics and international affairs for Time, the New York Times, National Geographic; and U.S. News World Report, where he was a national and White House correspondent. He has also been an Institute of Politics Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School toon meer of Government and a guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington. He lives in Washington, DC. toon minder

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It's hard to believe it's been 23 years since the murder of Jayna Murray. This book was written 2 years later. Unfortunately, I remember this well, since I live in the Washington, DC area, remember watching the news, reading newspaper stories. What a tragedy.

Though this book was small, it had a lot of information and details I wouldn't know, i.e. the forensic pathologists autopsy report of her which was very detailed and gruesome and even more so to read.

The author spared no details and did wonderful research.

I finished it in one day and couldn't put it down.
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sweetbabyjane58 | Feb 19, 2024 |
Interesting crime of Brad Bishop. Now I’ll be looking for tv shows on him.
 
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Leessa | Sep 3, 2022 |
I starting reading 1924 during the height of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election Primaries. When a friend asked what book I was reading, I almost answered "... it's a book about a guy with no political background, who was trying to become head of his nation's government, a guy who encouraged his followers to bully, harass, and abuse his opponents, a guy who carried and expressed deep hatred for racial minorities, and who talked about the need to make his Nation great again". I suspected, that had I actually answered that way, my friend might have erroneously thought I was reading a book about Donald Trump. But I wasn't looking to start an argument, so instead simply said that I was reading a book about Hitler's beginnings as a German leader, prior to his becoming Chancellor, the Fuhrer, and dictator of wartime Germany.

Much of the book covered parts of Hitler's life which were unknown to me. I didn't have a good understanding of exactly how Hitler went from a private in the German Army during WW I to become a rabble-rousing revolutionary figure, and ultimately leader of the Nazi Party in Germany, so all that was very interesting to me.

The book describes how he discovered his ability as a great orator, how he moved to leadership in the National Socialist German Workers Party, describes his failed 1924 putsch, subsequent arrest, and imprisonment. Interesting that Hitler's brief, one-year incarceration after the failed putsch was in a "country-club" prison. There, he had a comfortable room, which gave him time to stay in contact with his supporters, to fully formulate his political plans, and sit at his typewriter and write his book "Mein Kampf", detailing his political philosophy. At evident by the title, the book's focus is primarily on the year of 1924, and concludes prior to Hitler becoming German Chancellor in 1934, and prior to his taking his nation into the bloody Second World War. That history is better known, and the subject of numerous other books.
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rsutto22 | 3 andere besprekingen | Jul 15, 2021 |
The book describes a fulcrum point for Adolf Hitler, from a party propaganda man to the fuhrer. It gives a brief overview of Hitler’s biography and the situation in Weimar republic in the early 1920s, some of the facts were new to me, from the strong separatist movements in Bavaria and other regions to the idea that famous beer putsch was not that much against the authorities as enemies, but just in order to force the move faster toward toppling democratic government in Berlin. The book focuses on the putsch, consequent trial and 13 months in prison, during which Hitler, who preferred speaking to writing so much that had not a single article in newspapers before the imprisonment, wrote the first volume of the notorious My struggle. Especially interesting for me is that how norms and mores have changed in less than a century, chiefly in Germany, but over the world as well. Recommended to anyone interested in modern European history.… (meer)
 
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