Adolf Hitler

I hope David Gaughran will forgive me for the same kind of bad journalism that he pillories in his own piece, but this is simply too significant to ignore. Remember that little moral panic about Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf becoming an ebook bestseller? Well, there’s a problem. According to Gaughran: “Fake Controversy Alert: Hitler’s Mein [...]

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You won't see Adolf Hitler peering back at you from the featured display tables at Barnes & Noble any time soon. But browse the most popular e-book stores these days and Der Führer's mug is seemingly unavoidable. For a year now, his magnum manifesto has loomed large over current best-sellers on iTunes, where at the time of this writing two different digital versions of Mein Kampf rank 12th and 15th on the Politics & Current Events chart alongside books by modern conservative powerhouses like Sarah Palin, Charles Krauthammer and Glenn Beck.

Former actor, and playwright and author Reggie Oliver has been named more than once as the rightful successor to M. R. James and Robert Aickman in the English tradition of the weird tale. “The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler,” his second collection from the superlative British independent house Tartarus Press (already featured in TeleRead), is another [...]

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