Approaching the writing of major intellectuals, artists, and philosophers need no longer be daunting. How to Read is a new sort of introduction--a personal master class in reading--that brings you face to face with the work of some of the most influential and challenging writers in history. In lucid, accessible language, these books explain essential topics such as the implicit and explicit genocidal message within Hitler's writing.

Neil Gregor is Reader in Modern German History at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Daimler-Benz in the Third Reich and editor of Nazism: A Reader.