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Biographical Note:
Shigeru Mizuki, born on March 8, 1922, in Sakaiminato, Tottori, is a specialist in stories of yokai and is considered a master of the genre. In Japan, the life of Mizuki and his wife has been portrayed in an extremely popular daily television drama. Mizuki is the recipient of many awards, including the Best Album award for "NonNonBa" at the Angouleme International Comics Festival, the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Special Award, a Kyokujitsu Sho Decoration, a Minister of Education Award, a Shiju Hosho Decoration, and the Kodansha Manga Award. His works have been published in Japan, South Korea, France, and Spain."
Marc Notes:
Text is an English translation of a French text, which was originally published in Japanese;published in French under title Hitler in 2012.
Review Quotes:
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Showa is literature, illustrated or not, at its finest: a story that sweeps you off your feet only to find, when you return to Earth, that nothing looks quite the same." --
Los Angeles Times on "Showa: A History of Japan"
Publisher Marketing:
A master cartoonist and veteran tells the life story of the man who started the Second World War
Seventy years after his death, Adolf Hitler remains a mystery. Historians, military tacticians, and psychologists have tried in vain to unravel his complex motivations for leading Germany into the Holocaust and World War II. With Shigeru Mizuki's Hitler, the manga-ka (Kitaro, NonNonba, Showa: A History of Japan) delves deep into the history books to create an absorbing and eloquent portrait of Hitler's life.
Beginning with Hitler's time in Austria as a starving art student and ending with a Germany in ruins, Shigeru Mizuki's Hitler retraces the path Hitler took in life, coolly examining his charismatic appeal and his calculated political maneuvering. The Munich Beer Putsch, Hitler's ascent to chancellor, the sudden death of his half-niece Geli, the Battle of Stalingrad, his relationship with Eva Braun, and his eventual demise: all are given equal attention in this thorough and compelling biography.
In Mizuki's signature style, which populates incredibly realistic backgrounds with cartoony people, Japan's most famous living cartoonist has created an overview of Hitler's life that is as fascinating as it is informative.
Review Citations:
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Publishers Weekly 11/09/2015 (EAN 9781770462106, Paperback) - *Starred Review
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Booklist 12/15/2015 pg. 38 (EAN 9781770462106, Paperback)
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Library Journal 01/01/2016 pg. 81 (EAN 9781770462106, Paperback)
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Wilson Graphic Novels Catalog 04/11/2019 (EAN 9781770462106, Paperback)
Contributor Bio:Mizuki, Shigeru
Born March 8, 1922 in Sakaiminato, Tottori, Japan,
Shigeru Mizuki is a specialist in stories of
yokai and is considered a master of the genre. He is a member of the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology, and has traveled to more than sixty countries around the world to engage in fieldwork on the
yokai and spirits of different cultures. He has been published in Japan, South Korea, France, Spain, Taiwan, and Italy. His award-winning works include
Kitaro,
Nonnonba, and
Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths. Mizuki's four-part autobiography and historical portrait
Showa: A History of Japan won an Eisner Award in 2015.
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