Two Brothers

Author: Ben Elton

Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd : 2013 

Annotation: Ben Elton has written fifteen major bestsellers including, stark, popcorn, Inconceivable, Dead Famous, High Society to name a few. In this historical fiction set in 1920's pre-world war II Berlin two babies are born in a Jewish family believing they are twin brothers which turns out one is Jew and one gentile. It explores the life of two brothers how their life is shaped after Hitler came to the power. The fear and feeling of being Jew and Aryan is clearly depicted in this book, which takes the reader into one of the darkest times in the history of the world.

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How Hitler was made: Germany and the rise of the perfect Nazi

Author: Cory Taylor
Publisher: Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2018

Annotation: Written by Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker Cory Taylor. This book provides historical narrative to formative period of Adolf Hitler immediately after World War I unlike many other books which focuses his career after 1933. The book provides an insight into post war Germany where there was constant power struggle between the right and the left wing political parties. The socialist revolution in Bavaria, the change of attitude of German people towards democracy all intertwined together. How some influential group saw an opportunity to  take control of Hitler into the leader he became later. The narrative were based on extensive research carried out in Germany, England and US. This book reveals secrets of how fake news, manipulation of facts and political propaganda helped Hitler to be the dictator of one nation.

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Young Hitler: The making of The Fuhrer

Author: Paul Ham
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia : North Sydney, 2017

Annotation: By the author of Hiroshima Nagasaki (2011), Vietnam: The Australian War (2007) and Kokoda (2004). This multi-award winning author writes about a biography of young Adolf Hitler who went to WWI in 1914 at the age of 25 only to be awakened by  temporarily blindness from mustard gas in hospital bed. When he came to realisation that Germany has lost the war, it was too much to bear for him. He was in complete loss to see his fatherland has been taken by others not only physically but ideologically by Kaiser, a Marxist uprising in Bavaria. This biography tries to explore a young Hitler's mind growing up in Linz, Vienna and Munich to become one of the most brutal dictator of the 20th century.

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