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LONGERICH,PETER [Translated by Jeremy Noakes and Lesley Sharpe.] : HEINRICH HIMMLER

UK.OXFORD,OXFORDSHIRE/OXON.OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS,2012.

ISBN 9780199592326.

UK,thick 8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,subject's b/w portrait photographic illustrated dw/dj,with white,grey and red lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - two accidental small,ower corner creases to consecutive pages (pp119-122), else appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a red headband and immaculate plain red eps.UK, thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vi-xviiipp+2- 1031pp [paginated] includes author's acknowledgements,contents list/table,notes on sources,a glossary of terms, abbreviations list/table,a prologue,Pts I- VI comprising 6,3,4,5,6,2 chapters and a cnclusion,profuse contemporary b/w photographs interspersed throughoutthe text and the book,endnotes,a bibliography,an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,picture credits,individual Pts separator pages and 4pp blanks at the rear of the book. The full life story of Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and embodiment of Nazi terror,persecution,and mass murder - now told in English for the first time. As head of the SS,chief of police,'Reich Commissar for the Consolidation of the Ethnic German Nation',and Reich Interior Minister,Heinrich Himmler enjoyed a position of almost unparalleled power and responsibility in Nazi Germany.Perhaps more than any other single Nazi leader aside from Hitler,his name has become a byword for the terror,persecution,and destruction that characterized the Third Reich.His wide-ranging powers meant that he bore equal responsibility for the repression of the German people on the home front and the atrocities perpetrated by the SS in the East.Yet in spite of his central role in the crimes of the Nazi regime,until now Himmler has remained a colourless and elusive figure in the history of the period. In this,the first-ever comprehensive biography of the Reichsfuhrer_SS,leading German historian Peter Longerich puts every aspect of Himmler's life under the microscope.Masterfully interweaving the story of Himmler's personal life and political career with the wider history of the Nazi dictatorship,Longerich shows how skilfully he exloited and manipulated his disparate roles in the pursuit of his far- reaching and grandiose objectives.In the process,he illuminates the extraordinary degree to which Himmler's own personal prejudices,idiosyncrasies,and predilections made their mark on the organizations for which he was responsible - especially the SS,which in so many ways bore the characteristic hallmarks of its leader,and whose history remains incomprehensible without a detailed and intimate knowledge of its deeply sinister commander-in-chief. Peter Longerich is Professor of Modern German History at Royal Holloway University of London and founder of the College's Holocaust Research Centre.One of the world's leading authorities on the Third Reich and the Holocaust,he has published widely on the subject,inckuding 'Holocaust: The Nazi Perecution and Murder of the Jews' (2010),also published by Oxford University Press. The standard - indeed the only - reliable and thorough biography of the head of the SS and German police. . . a masterpiece' RICHARD J. EVANS,author of 'The Third Reich' trilogy. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015, and in 2016 too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight - 1.75Kg unpackaged - and the value of this item for correct,insured shipping/ P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

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