ISBN10: 1853676942, ISBN13: 9781853676949, [publisher: London UK & St. Paul MN. 2006. Greenhill Books / MBI] Hardcover black hardcover 8vo. (octavo). no dustwrapper. near fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. front cover a little sunfaded. rear cover has tiny scratch. edges clean. contents free of markings. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (FPu2006 & NAP). colored endpapers. 264p. 21 b&w illustrations. index. biography. world war ii. nazi germany. third reich. ~ (from the introduction) "For a vital phase during the early years of his life, his late teenage years in Linz and Vienna, when we otherwise have tantalisingly little to go on, Hitler had a personal ~ and exclusive ~ friend, who later composed a striking account of the four years of their close companionship. This friend was August Kubizek. His account is unique in that it stands alone in offering insights into Hitler's character and mentality for the four years between 1904 and 1908. For every study of Hitler's early years, including the first parts of my own biography, Kubizek's story has proved an indispensable source. His recollections of his time together with Hitler, first published in 1953, are now in their sixth edition. An English translation, with an introduction by H. R. Trevor~Roper, later Lord Dacre, was published in 1954 and ...
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