Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth Paperback - 1996
by Gitta Sereny
This brilliant biography illuminates the forces and psychological processes that turned a intelligent, perhaps even decent, man into an instrument of evil. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews with Speer and his associates, Gitta Sereny unravels the complex web of her subject's character, revealing the organizational genius, political infighter, and cipher who became Hitler's "unhappy love". of photos.
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DR. HANS FLACHSNER [defense counsel]: With the permission of the High Tribunal, I should like to call the defendant Speer to the witness box.
From the jacket flap
Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge of the Holocaust. Now this enigma of a man is unveiled in a monumental biography by a writer who came to know Speer intimately in his final years. Out of hundreds of hours of interviews, Sereny unravels the threads of Speer's personality: the genius that made him indispensable to the German war machine, the conscience that drove him to repent, and the emotional wounds that made him susceptible to Hitler's lethal magnetism. Read as an inside account of the Third Reich, or as a revelatory unsparing yet compassionate study of the human capacity for evil, Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth is a triumph.
"Fascinating...Not only a major addition to our knowledge of the Third Reich, but a stunning attempt to understand the nature of good and evil."--Newsday
"More than a biography...It also constitutes a perceptive re-examination of the mysterious appeal of Adolf Hitler."--San Francisco Chronicle
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- Title Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
- Author Gitta Sereny
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 800
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date October 29, 1996
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780679768128 / 0679768122
- Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.2 x 1.8 in (20.32 x 13.21 x 4.57 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Germany - Politics and government - 1933-1945, Nazis
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94019764
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- New York Times, 03/09/1997, Page 28
- Publishers Weekly, 09/30/1996, Page 0
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