Hero Hitler, so he had to be brought down.
581863
Wow, who'd have thought it, another side to the story. Only this side makes more sense. Well done MSK and thanks. So what else haven't we had an even handed version of events about? A great read, well worth the time, trouble and outlay. Thanks again Mr King.
4626517
I gave it 5 stars not because it was a good read but because there is nothing like reading Hitlers' own words to realize how evil this guy really was. I only read about half of the book, I 'll bet nobody has read the whole thing! I am guessing that if the citizens of Germany had read it their may not have been a WWII
3733758
Needless to say,  I want to learn more involving his death, what we as a country sacrificed because of Hitler, yet gambled away for pc politics. Patton new Stalin was evil, we lived through the "cold war" as proof of h I s knowledge, yet similar to what we are doing today, we are afraid to act, stand tall, and cave in to these political thugs.  Patton may well have been murdered by the very nation he loved because o f cowards afraid to make the tougher call.  We seem to never learn.
437088
This guy was ALL MAN!  He didn't tolerate any of the BS PC crap that pervades our society.  He respected a man for being a man.  Where have all these heroes gone?  I wouldn't trade 100 average citizens of today for this man.  This is his story.
1639489
I have always believed that Hitler and his close advisers escaped Europe, but it is now gratifying to know how they did it. The tragic problem remains that the bulk of the world will find it hard to swallow.
925679
This was a very good attempt at the closest assignation attempt on Adolph Hitler.  The executions were dragged out for holywoods effects.
4779324
A very goood account of the very complex political situation in Europe between the two world wars. One imagines that Hitler wouldd never had been able to succeed at anyy other time in history. Clearly Winston Churchill was one of the few peoople able  to read the situattion.
2429397
Interesting story told by someone who was a witness to what others have called the "banality of evil" in Adolf Hitler, a man who was simultaneously capable of showing compassion to some while launching aggressive wars and planning the extermination of millions.  Misch writes that the Hitler he knew (and saw on a daily basis for years) was neither a superman (as he was portrayed to the German people) or a ranting lunatic (the way he is portrayed in most movies).  Instead, the truth is much more subtle and therefore much more difficult to understand........that evil can lurk within all of us, that without a firm moral compass we may be able to rationalize away the suffering of others, and that, in the end, Adolf Hitler was one of us.....a member of the human race.  I think we do a disservice when we reckon Hitler to be the "most evil" man in history...... Hitler should not be viewed as being essentially any different from other tyrants, some of whom we counted as allies (Stalin, Mao, and a few others come to mind).....the only difference was that Hitler was defeated militarily and his crimes came to the light of day.  For me, the most important message of the book was one that Misch does not draw and that is, without a firm moral compass, humans are not only capable of horrible things, but also of a willful blindness to evil.
3488886
The HY were totally ideologically indoctrinated and caused to believe to the point of psychosis, as shown by the sniper in this account. What the filth that propagandized him did to him to unhinge him so is not mentioned, but it worked completely. The Europeans today know this type of "free speech" is yelling "fire" in a crowded theatre.
2274156
Lots of detailed stories about this amazing man who was only too aware that everything he did as President was setting a precedent.  What we were doing as a new country had simply never been done before in history.  He came back from the war as the popular conquering hero and, instead of taking over power and killing all his opponents (as has routinely been done in the past), he resigned his commission and retied to Mount Vernon.  What character.
968130
An interesting man in his time. He hated Hitler, but eventually joined him in WW II
3675398
In the years preceding the second World War, Diana Mitford left her wealthy young husband, with whom she had two small children, to take up with Sir Oswald Mosley, the maximum leader of the British Fascist party.  She found him and his cause far more exciting and engrossing than the regular upper-class art and society crowd she had previously ornamented, which was populated with dreary "parlour pinks".  Now she split her time between a love nest in London and Berlin, where she and her sister Unity spent their days sucking up to Hitler and his inner circle. Diana tried to get Hitler to cough up money for Mosley. Mosley himself concentrated more successfully on Musselini, who did indeed secretly provide funds for the care and feeding of British brownshirts.
At some point Mosley's wife (yes, he was married too, and on his second marriage) conveniently died.  Mosley was faced with a dilemna. Should he marry Diana?  Or his other lover, his dead wife's sister. I guess he procrastinated as long as he could, until finally sweeping Diana off her feet for the ultimate in romantic weddings. A small gathering in Nazi Germany: just the happy couple, the Goebbels and, of course, Adolf Hitler. Then they returned to England to continue the good fight at home.
Not surprisingly, when was broke out, Diana and her knight in shining armor were incarcerated. The Mosleys' regarded this as dreadfully unfair, since he had given lip service to patriotic concerns by announcing that his brownshirts should join up. The Mosleys' regarded their captors as foolish and dim. But it was clear to even the dullest mind that Mosley would be Hitler's man in England if the was started going poorly, and if Mosley had his way compromise with Hitler would be the next step in the war.
After the war the Mosleys' returned to a much quieter lifestyle--raising some of the numerous children they had spawned in their various marriages (those that they were allowed custody of) to become good fascists.  They eventually turned their energies to the Neo Nazi movement in England, and Diana used her keen mind to help these thugs, bigots and nuts try to mask their vicious, malignant motives with pseudo-intectual political sophistry.
The book is very informative and interesting, but disturbing. The author points out how inconsistent and appalling some of the political philosophy Diana embraced was, most notably with respect to anti-semitism. But the author does not seem to challenge some of their more dreadful sophistries: such as the popular neo-nazi notion that the Jews would not actually have been GASSED if England hadn't come into the war. (with its corollary that England and those other mean countries wouldn't have picked on poor Germany if those nasty Jews hadn't made such a fuss about being persecuted, beated, robbed and murdered!)
The author at times seems to be writing a standard Society bio, full of cameos of the rich and famous, and boasts of their devotion to Diana. The author also seems quite sympathetic to Diana's distaste for parlour pinks and "pinkos" (I'm quoting the author here), and to the notion that fascism and even collusion with Hitler is more acceptable than any truck with communism or the Labour Party.
Nevertheless, I'd recommend reading it.  It is definitely food for thought in a lot of ways.
3666167
The true story about Hitler. It's an untold story about what really happened. This should've been in the history books. Which is why this book is even written.
1578602
Hitler's Pope: the condition was excellent; the content damning.
2703333
I found this book to bring interesting, because it showed how Italy was effected during the war. The hero was a kind hearted man who found the Nazis to be as horrible as the other countries thought. I was a little slow in parts, but generally a good read.
1863886
This story has its basis in that the Germans had considered pulling back to a mountainous region in Austria and southeastern Germany if their country was overrun and bleed the allies fighting defensively from behind difficult terrain.  The plan was rejected by Hitler who didn't believe defeat should be considered.  Also, as in this novel, it would only have prolonged the agony by a short interval at best.  As a result, this is not the most exciting of alternate history novels, but it's OK
943968
It seemed to me that motivation to undergo the training undertaken by the hero had to be fueled by something such as implacable hatred.  The author supplied a background that explained this. The hero HAD to have revenge & got it.

There was no effort to make the missions look simple and easy;  the author kept his heroes in the real world.

Norman Meeker