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Born in 1889 to a family of farmers in a quaint little town of Braunau am Inn in Austria, this scion with a childhood like any other would one day rise like a phoenix from the ashes of World War I and single-handedly shape the course of history between 1939-45. His insatiable ambition and lust for power combined with a deep-rooted hatred for the Jews and a mindless obsession with eugenics threatened to rip the very fabric of this planet. Witness how the Allies put an end to Adolf Hitler’s juggernaut through a fascinating and insightful day by day narrative by the author, Jaideep Gupte. Enhanced by rich visuals, the book almost transports you to ground zero. All the theatres of the war (Western Front – Europe, Eastern Front – Soviet Union, Pacific – Japan with its islands and North Africa) have been dealt with by Jaideep with equal weightage. It also includes the turning points in the war, some stunning war inventions that created a buzz, Hitler’s greatest blunders, his search for pure Aryan blood, an account of his henchmen and their fate as Nazi war criminals, the ever spewing Nazi propaganda machine and even a peek into the psyche of Hitler himself. It lets one experience World War II in all its entirety with a helicopter view never seen before.
Jaideep Gupte
“He who would live must fight. He who doesn’t wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.”
Adolf Hitler- Mein Kampf
Jaideep Gupte has been a banker by profession and resides in Mumbai. Though he is a part of the financial world, he has varied interests from astronomy, science, religion and history, including wars. An avid fan of science fiction, fantasy, mythology and war movies, he has been particularly fascinated by World War II movies. During one of his high school holiday trips to his grandparent’s house, he chanced upon a fairly detailed book on World War II. The book sparked his curiosity. But as with everyone, the frenetic pace of academic life and later work life took precedence, and this curiosity lay dormant. He did manage to catch a few snippets of the war from time to time, meanwhile observing that World War II was always presented in Hollywood movies with some very famous battles as the theme, leaving out many other events that were also important but never made it to the viewer. Very recently Jaideep decided to activate that dormant interest in the topic and portray the war as a whole, covering the entire gamut of events on a day by day basis, thereby spawning the book that he now wishes to present to the reader as his first endeavour.
