Sieg Heil! (Hail to Victory: An Illustrated History of Germany from Bismarck to Hitler (signed) [signed] [first edition]

ABOUT THIS BOOK -- A compelling photographic history of Germany from 1862 to 1945. This book provides comprehensive coverage of German identity and German power from Bismarck's unification of Germany through the fall of the 3rd Reich. Editorially sound and historically savvy, over 50% of the book is devoted to the Weimar Republic through the end of World War II. ABOUT THE COVER IMAGE -- A confounding painted "portrait" derived from a famous photomontage, the cover gives us Hitler's face, Kaiser Wilhem II's moustache, and Bismarck's uniform. ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- Stefan Lorant is probably best remembered for his memoir "I Was Hitler's Prisoner." Lorant, according to Steven Heller, is imporant because "Even if the Hungarian born Stefan Lorant (1901-1997) did not, as he claims, invent the modern photo-journalistic essay, he was certainly in the vanguard, indeed helped perfect the form.... A self-taught photographer, writer and film-maker, he developed unique methods of picture / text narration that defined subsequent 'golden age' photo magazines...."