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Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth
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Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth Paperback - 1996

by Sereny, Gitta/ Dimock, Peter (Editor)

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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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Vintage Books, 1996. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 800 pages. 8.25x5.00x1.50 inches.
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  • Title Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth
  • Author Sereny, Gitta/ Dimock, Peter (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 800
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1996
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1-0679768122
  • 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)
  • 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

First line

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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Citations

  • New York Times, 03/09/1997, Page 28
  • Publishers Weekly, 09/30/1996, Page 0

About the author

Gitta Sereny was one of Europe's foremost journalists with a special interest and expertise in the Third Reich. She has written extensively for London's Daily Telegraph magazine, the Sunday Times, and the Independent, as well as for Die Zeit and Le Nouvel Observateur. In America, she has written for the New York Times Magazine, the New York Review of Books, and Vanity Fair. Her books include Into Darkness: An Examination of Conscience, The Invisible Children, and Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth. She had two children and two grandchildren and lived with her husband, the photographer Don Honeyman, in London. She died in 2012.