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: a young German lawyer’s account of how ordinary life accommodated the Nazi takeover month by month, from the inside, while it was still recent.
Where I saw it: A reply to @typesfast’s question on X, June 5, 2025 — “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” — recovered from that thread and saved to Kyle’s Apple Note “Books To Read”. Thread: https://x.com/typesfast/status/1930617097068912787
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.