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Title: Goring: A Biography by David Irving ISBN: 0-688-06606-2 Publisher: Harpercollins Pub. Date: 01 February, 1989 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $47.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good Biography Silhouetted Against the Backdrop of History
Comment: It is precisely because of the "idiosyncracities" of the subject that jazzes this excellently written volume and sets it apart from the more generalized biographies of Hitler's henchmen authored by Peter Padfield and others. It is of course impossible to separate these men from the events of World War II, and most historians do not attempt it. Thus,the spate of biographies of Goebbels, Himmler, et. al., appearing in recent years are more generalized histories of World War II; tactics, politics, etc; than a close exploration into the inner workings of self, and environmental factors that drove these individuals into Hitler's orbit. Mr. Irving does a better job of unmasking the man that was Hermann Goring than most, and manages to capture the essence of the man against the larger themes of war, the Holocaust, and the mad delusions of the Third Reich.
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting viewpoint
Comment: I dont think any historian is perfect. And when an Historian has an unpopular view, he tends to be more scrutinized. David Irving is perhaps an apologist for Hitler (ie. It wasnt Hitler it was the bad men around him that brought him down), and therefore controversial. But he does present a fresh viewpoint and that helps the self intellectual decide for themselves what happened during those tempestuous times. I myself found the book interesting but too full of superficial idiosyncracies about Goering. I would have preferred more of a psychological evaluation and analysis of the man.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hitler's Second In Command: Coward, Transvestite & Addict
Comment: Look up the word sybarite in your dictionary and a life sized portrait in living color of Hermann Goring should jump out at you. Even as Germany's fortunes waned in the latter stages of W.W.II, Goring spared no expense in providing himself an ever more luxurious life style.
His sumptious hunting retreat became the repository of one of the most impressive art collections in history. Using stolen and extorted funds he spent millions obtaining, for his personal collection, great works of art by the trainload, most of whose legitimate owners died in the gas chambers of the concentration camps.
Irving's well researched book traces Goring's life from his childhood in Bavaria through his education at a military academy where he first fell in love with smartly trimmed uniforms, through his experience as a Fighter Pilot in W.W.I, then through his early connection with Hitler and what Hitler stood for in the years of humiliation and finally, to the years of power as Hitler's second in command.
Irving leaves no doubt that Goring was a monster, a monster who had no second thoughts about engineering the deaths of countless numbers of innocent people. He found it aesthetically unpleasing, however, to actually witness any of these "unpleasantries."
Goring was a coward who pretended to be brave and heroic. He was a morphine addict because he couldn't tolerate pain, but had no qualms about inflicting pain on others. He was honest to no one, not to himself, not to his fellow officers, and certainly not to Hitler. A great percentage of his energy during the war years went to fabricating alibis and hiding from Hitler so he wouldn't have to admit to his responsibility for many great failures, particularly where the Luftwaffe was concerned.
He was an open transvestite, frequently appearing in public in effeminate clothing, including his ermine cape, and wearing heavy facial make-up.
In spite of all this, Hitler rewarded him for his early loyalty by making Goring his heir apparent. As the war drew to an unsuccesful end, Goring had grandiose ideas of sitting down with Eisenhower, and negotiating, as equals, a peace settlement. He was shocked when, instead of being treated as the honored and honorable leader of a nation defeated in war, he was arrested, stripped of all medals and symbols of rank, interrogated, and imprisoned in an unpleasant cell and fed soup out of a tin plate.
At the Neurenberg Trials, he was not allowed to make any of his carefully prepared statements and was sentenced to death by hanging. This planned method of execution was, to him, humiliating. He believed that he was entitled to the death of an honorable soldier, death by firing squad. To avoid this final humiliation, he managed to obtain a cyanide capsule and committed suicide, thus cheating the hangman.
In preparing GORING, Irving had access to materials that had only recently become available. He meticulously cited all of his sources and took the extra step of making sure that all of his source materials were (and are) readily available to the interested scholar. GORING is interesting to read for the history it reveals, for the psychological insight into the mind of a 20th century monster, and as a study of a society run amok. I recommend it.
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Title: Churchill's War Volume II: Triumph in Adversity by David Irving ISBN: 1872197159 Publisher: Focal Point Publications Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Hitler's War and the War Path by David Irving, Walter Frentz ISBN: 1872197108 Publisher: Focal Point Pub. Date: 20 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: Churchill's War (Volume 1) The Struggle for Power by David John Cawdell Irving ISBN: 0947117563 Publisher: Veritas Books (CN) Pub. Date: 01 December, 1987 List Price(USD): $70.00 |
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Title: Hitler's War by David Irving ISBN: 0380758067 Publisher: Harpercollins (P) Pub. Date: 01 February, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: War Between the Generals by David Irving ISBN: 0865530696 Publisher: Smithmark Pub Pub. Date: 01 June, 1986 List Price(USD): $4.98 |
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