Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi

An award-winning historian charts Hitler's radical transformation after World War I from a directionless loner into a powerful National Socialist leader.In Becoming Hitler, Thomas Weber examines Adolf Hitler's time in Munich between 1918 and 1926, the years when Hitler shed his awkward, feckless persona and transformed himself into a savvy opportunistic political operator who saw himself as Germany's messiah. The story of Hitler's transformation is one of a fateful match between man and city. Af…