Hitler: Volume I: Ascent 1889â "1939 (Hitler Biographies)

"A superb biography of the Führer’s pre-war years... It is a tribute to Ullrich’s absorbing biography that one contemplates its second volume with a shudder." (Miranda Seymour Daily Telegraph)

"In a most impressive and massive account, [Volker Ullrich] adds telling details and subtle nuances to the dictator’s portrait and provides a fresh perspective on his rise. The result is a must-read book that is bound to be a critical and commercial success." (Robert Gellately Times Higher Education)

"[Ullrich] does not go out of his way to belittle his subject and the vulnerabilities he calmly exposes heighten the power of this extraordinary portrait." (Sunday Telegraph)

"Fine biography... Where Ullrich adds greatly to our understanding is by making the mercurial, changeable and...profoundly unknowable Hitler believable... This is a major achievement... Impressive and revealing biography." (Nicholas Stargardt Literary Review)

"Volker Ullrich works like a master chef: he trusts his ingredients and uses them with great care. The Hitler that emerges is droll, clever, hysterical, and at the same time alarmingly pragmatic; the reader is able to follow his development from oddball to messiah, propelled forwards by the dynamics between the Fuhrer and his people. Ullrich describes what happened: nothing more, nothing less. And it is exactly this impressive restraint which gives the book its two important qualities: it is both reliable and enormously entertaining." (Timur Vermes, author of Look Who's Back)