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Book Review

‘Hitler’ by A.N. Wilson

By Michael Warshaw

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 23, 2012

In “Hitler,” the caustic British historian A.N. Wilson argues that we don’t know enough. Hitler has become a symbol, an unreal manifestation of history. Wilson wants us to know the man — and what an unattractive man he was. Distilling his own career-long study into a tight, rapid-fire volume that is both portrait and warning, Wilson promises an insightful statement on the man and the phenomenon.

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