(14 Aug 2015, 9:25 pm)mb134 wrote Yeah, I was told by my teacher to have a look at 'Mein Kampf', as I'm doing my coursework next year on that period of time, I went to Waterstones on Wednesday to have a look, and I was going to buy something by Kershaw, might be what you've suggested, need to double check, if so I'll order it tomorrow and hopefully it'll be here by early next week. I'm centering my coursework on Hitler, hence the purchase, and pondering whether he was the largest influence on Germany in the past century.
I bought 'The Double Helix' for my own personal interest, and additional research for my EPQ, into DNA.
Edit: The Kershaw book I saw in Waterstones was simply entitled 'Hitler', I'll have a look at the one you recommend now
Just a little addendum to this conversation...
While I was driving to work this morning, there was some author on the radio promoting an upcoming book. When I heard what the book was about, I immediately thought it may be of some use to you. The book presents a social-history of Germany during the reign of Hitler focussing specifically on the final six years of the regime (1939-45). Apparently, this is the first text which explores Germany and Hitler from the perspective of the German people, offering new insights into how regular Germans viewed Hitler and the Nazi regime; their appetite for war; and what they really knew about the atrocities committed to obtain supremacy in Europe.
If you want to know how the regime influenced German people to assess Hitler's legacy in Germany, it sounds like a good read.
Here's the snippet from the Radio 4 website:
Seventy years after World War II with whole libraries dedicated to the war the thoughts of ordinary Germans, surprisingly, have not been heard until now. Professor Nicholas Stargardt, one of Britain's foremost scholars of Nazi Germany at Oxford University has examined letters and diaries for his new book “The German War” to provide an insight into the lives of ordinary Germans fighting the war.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b068c7n8
And here's his book on Amazon...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/German-War-Natio..._1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1441286923&sr=1-1&keywords=the+german+war