Kyle Harrison
to-read
Defying Hitler
Defying Hitler: A Memoir
- Author
- Sebastian Haffner
- Published
- 2000
- Pages
- 259
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Written in 1939 and published posthumously in 2000: Sebastian Haffner, then a young German lawyer, on how ordinary life accommodated the Nazi takeover month by month — from the inside, while it was still recent.
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @typesfast — named in the replies to his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?”, June 2025.
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
- Adolf Hitler · World War II · History · Power — where this sits in the corpus.