Results for "Ryback, Timothy W."

From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler’s Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler seized power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and ruinIn the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse. One in three German... Read More about Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power

Diplomacy is used primarily to advance the interests of a state beyond its borders, within a set of global norms intended to assure a degree of international harmony. As a result of internal and international armed conflicts, the need to negotiate peace through an emerging system of international hu... Read More about Justice and Diplomacy: Resolving Contradictions in Diplomatic Practice and International Humanitarian Law

A Washington Post Notable Book With a new chapter on eugenicist Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great RaceIn this brilliant and original exploration of some of the formative influences in Adolf Hitler’s life, Timothy Ryback examines the books that shaped the man and his thinking.Hitler was b... Read More about Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life

Diplomacy is used primarily to advance the interests of a state beyond its borders, within a set of global norms intended to assure a degree of international harmony. As a result of internal and international armed conflicts, the need to negotiate peace through an emerging system of international hu... Read More about Justice and Diplomacy: Resolving Contradictions in Diplomatic Practice and International Humanitarian Law

The remarkable story of Josef Hartinger, the German prosecutor who risked everything to bring to justice the first killers of the Holocaust and whose efforts would play a key role in the Nuremberg tribunal.At 9 am on April 13, 1933, deputy prosecutor Josef Hartinger received a telephone ca... Read More about Hitler's First Victims: The Quest for Justice