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This book might not sound as fascinating, readable and elucidating as it is. I was put off by the very introduction, fearing things would be too dry and academic. But it's the result of a sheer labour of love (just see the copious pages and pages of bibliography), in the hands of what surely must be the best person on this whole planet to tell this story, and told in the best way imaginable. The depth of aside detail is incredible – the facts gathered regarding when Hitler's homes had been looted and witnessed by Allied journalists for the first time are most memorable. The style is clear, warm and approachable, although it might claim a politicised, academic interpretation on every comment then made, as if every speaker, reporter, photojournalist and more had a professorial insight to what they were saying and how it would be read for decades. But the import of the book – one of the first and certainly the most substantial look at how the public view of Hitler was formed and informed by his private spaces and vice versa – is not to be dismissed. This is an incredible volume.

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