title: Hitler's War Volume 1
author: David Irving
description: this  is a firsthand depiction of the man whose deeds and character, triumph and downfall will trouble  the world for ages to come
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  _David Irving_
  
  
  HITLER'S  
  WAR
  
  
  _and The War Path_
  
  
  ‘Two books in English stand out from the vast literature of the Second World
  War: Chester Wilmot's _The Struggle for Europe_ , published in 1952, and David
  Irving's _Hitler's War_ ’
  
  
  JOHN KEEGAN, _Times Literary Supplement_
  
  
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  FOCAL POINT
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  _Twenty years still to go: Wealthy benefactor Lotte Bechstein took this
  snapshot of Adolf Hitler, then 36, at the balustrade of the villa that became
  the Berghof, after his release from Landsberg prison in 1925_ (AUTHOR'S
  COLLECTION)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **A Doctor quotes Hitler on Biographers, in August 1944**
  
  
  A FOREIGNER, _said Hitler, ‘probably finds it easier to pass judgment on a
  statesman, provided he is familiar with the country, its people, its language,
  and its archives_.
  
  
  _‘“Presumably,” I said, “Chamier didn't know the Kaiser personally, as he was
  still relatively young. But his book not only shows a pre