Mein Kampf: A Descriptive Bibliography is the most thorough, complete and detailed analysis and description of every edition of Hitler's Mein Kampf ever published. It is destined to be the benchmark for the study of the publication history and analysis of one of the world's most important and influential books. With over 300 illustrations and nearly 800 pages in one volume, this study is long overdue and long awaited. Edited by Stephen R. Pastore, an experienced bibliographer and book collector with co-authors Andreas Stanik and Steven M. Brewster, the effects of this study will be far-reaching and will increase in importance for decades to come. REVIEWS From Publishers Weekly At long last someone of note and experience has tackled the extremely difficult job of describing perhaps one of the most influential volumes in all of human history, Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf. Pastore seems more up to the difficult task than most. He takes a bibliographer's point of view with no agenda, no side, no bias to discuss not only the creation of the book but, most importantly, a description in unparalleled terms of the impact on the history of the Twentieth Century that this book has and will continue to have so long as Man walks the Earth. No one will doubt the depth and breadth of this meticulous and difficult study. Certainly, it is the end-all for studies of Mein Kampf and we should all be thankful to the author and his co-authors Brewster and Stanik for taking on a thankless job for the benefit of all. Copyright 2016 Cahners Business Information, Inc. New York Times Book Review "A detailed look at the life of an important book...." New York Times Book Review "[A] gripping new book.... To write like this requires a rare sensitivity and psychological sophistication coupled with a degree of fearlessness.... the authors impress not only as a cultural historian. He also has an impressively strong grasp on the impact of Mein Kampf. And this is indispensable.... This is a truly profound piece of history." The Guardian "This vivid history of the evoltion of Mein Kampf captures the complex feelings of ordinary Germans under the Nazi regime.... A superb study." Wall Street Journal Pastore', Brewster & Stanik's...gracefully written bibliography offers by far the most comprehensive and readable guide to these issues...This is splendid scholarship.... Anyone interested in National Socialist Germany, World War II and the many murderous regimes that still disfigure the earth should relish Mein Kampf: A Descriptive Bibliography." New York Review of Books "[Pastore] draws on many sources to paint a huge social canvas of the history of this important book." Washington Post, "In his new and excellent book, 'Mein Kampf: A Descriptive Bibliography, ' historian Stephen R. Pastore exhumes the records and publication history of Mein Kampf. He details how a cultured nation went insane. Times Higher Education "Ambitious...this book is a prodigious accomplishment..." Washington Times "Exhaustive.... A first-rate historical read." Washington Book Review "An important addition to the growing number of books on the history of WWII... a very insightful study." Kirkus Reviews "[A] massive but thorough meditation.... A well-researched, unsettling social history of Mein Kampf that will prove deeply thought-provoking..." Library Journal "Important... Pastore/Stanik/Brewster provide a vital and necessary addition to the World War II canon that will appeal to World War II buffs and anyone with an interest in 20th-century German history."
About the Author: Steven M. Brewster, born in Princeton, West Virginia, has been studying and collecting Mein Kampf for three decades. He specializes in American and British editions, in particular, the comparative variations between different translations. In addition, he has contributed to A Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics ed. by Michael Barrier and Martin Williams, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981; The Photo-Journal Guide to Comic Books Volume One (A-J), compiled by: Ernst & Mary Gerber, Gerber Publishing Co, Inc.,1989; The Photo-Journal Guide to Comic Books Volume Two (K-Z), compiled by Ernst & Mary Gerber, Gerber Publishing Co., Inc., 1990; The Real Bettie Page by Richard Foster, Carol Publishing Group, 1997. Andreas Stanik, born in the outskirts of Berlin, Germany, is a collector and student of Third Reich publications, most particularly, the numerous magazines, journals and periodicals produced in Germany from 1924 until 1945. With a vast collection of material and the creation of his educational website, bunkerbooks.weebly.com, Stanik has become a noted authority and respected bookseller specializing in all aspects of Nazi publications. More importantly, perhaps, are his connections to renowned collectors around the world enabling many hitherto unknown editions of Mein Kampf to be seen and studied in the light of the 21st Century. Stephen R. Pastore is a novelist, playwright, poet and literary biographer/bibliographer. Born in New York City, he is the author of The Art of Adolf Hitler, 2010; The Complete Paintings of Adolf Hitler, 2015; Adolf Before He Was Hitler and is the editor of Michael: A Novel by Joseph Goebbels, 2016 and The Master of Auschwitz: The Memoirs of Rudolf Höss; 2017. He became the first American elected to the Council of Management of The Thomas Hardy Society (UK) where he lectured and wrote on the works of Thomas Hardy throughout Britain. He is the author of Helene Hanff: A Life; Rethinking Cormac McCarthy and Cormac McCarthy: A Descriptive Bibliography; Émile Zola: A Life, and Charlotte Mew: The Lost Muse.