Hindenburg, Ludendorff and Hitler

A thought-provoking dual biography of the two men whose political ideologies birthed the rise Nazi Germany’s Third Reich. They are two of twentieth-century history’s most significant figures, yet today they are largely forgotten—Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, Germany’s First World War leaders. Although defeat in 1918 brought an end to their “silent dictatorship”, both generals played a key role in the turbulent politics of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazis. Alexander Cliff