Sebastian Haffner wrote history, political commentary and memoir about Germany in the twentieth century. Defying Hitler recounts his experience of Germany's transformation under Nazism from the viewpoint of an ordinary educated German trying to understand how public life changed around him. The Meaning of Hitler offers a concise analytical portrait of Hitler's aims, successes and failures, while other works cover German political history and figures such as Churchill. Haffner's prose is clear, compressed and argumentative rather than heavily academic. The most relevant shelves are Nazi Germany, political memoir and accessible twentieth-century European history. Read more Less