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Eva Braun: Life With Hitler (2011)

by Heike B. Görtemaker(Favorite Author)

2.95 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

030759582X (ISBN13: 9780307595829)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Knopf

review 1: For a book about Eva Braun, there was remarkably little said about Eva Braun. I realize that female historical figures are almost always harder to illuminate due to their nearly invisible presence in the public sphere, but the author did a poor job of qualifying her subject matter in that way before luring you into her book and then turning around and droning endlessly on about all the men surrounding Hitler. I also did not agree with the author's categorical dismissal of some historical evidence. When she did get around to talking about Braun, however, it was fascinating, especially as the time drew closer for the couple's double suicide.
review 2: Very interesting account of this woman, although at times it read like a doctoral thesis. With extremely limited ... moresource material, the true person of Eva Braun has been lost to time. There are lot of interviews here which attempt to piece together a portrait. Unfortunately, as the author admits, after the war ended, everyone from within the inner circle had their own motives for the way they chose to describe Hitler and Eva. The truth cannot be known. less

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