Shigeru Mizuki's Hitler

Shigeru Mizuki's Hitler by Mizuki, Shigeru. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781770462106.

A master cartoonist and veteran tells the life story of the man who started the Second World War Seventy years after his death, Adolf Hitler remains a mystery. Historians, military tacticians, and psychologists have tried in vain to unravel his complex motivations for leading Germany into the Holocaust and World War II. With Shigeru Mizukis Hitler, the manga-ka (Kitaro, NonNonba, Showa: A History of Japan) delves deep into the history books to create an absorbing and eloquent portrait of Hitlers life. Beginning with Hitlers time in Austria as a starving art student and ending with a Germany in ruins, Shigeru Mizukis Hitler retraces the path Hitler took in life, coolly examining his charismatic appeal and his calculated political maneuvering. The Munich Beer Putsch, Hitlers ascent to chancellor, the sudden death of his half-niece Geli, the Battle of Stalingrad, his relationship with Eva Braun, and his eventual demise: all are given equal attention in this thorough and compelling biography. In Mizukis signature style, which populates incredibly realistic backgrounds with cartoony people, Japans most famous living cartoonist has created an overview of Hitlers life that is as fascinating as it is informative.