{"product_id":"albert-speer-his-battle-with-truth-paperback","title":"Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGitta Sereny\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlbert 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, \u003cb\u003eAlbert Speer: His Battle with Truth\u003c\/b\u003e is a triumph. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"More than a biography...It also constitutes a perceptive re-examination of the mysterious appeal of Adolf Hitler.\"--San Francisco Chronicle\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlbert 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"More than a biography...It also constitutes a perceptive re-examination of the mysterious appeal of Adolf Hitler.\"--San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGitta Sereny\u003c\/b\u003e was one of Europe's foremost journalists with a special interest and expertise in the Third Reich. She has written extensively for London's \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and the\u003ci\u003e Independent\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as for \u003ci\u003eDie Zeit\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLe Nouvel Observateur\u003c\/i\u003e. In America, she has written for the\u003ci\u003e New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e. Her books include \u003ci\u003eInto Darkness: An Examination of Conscience\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Children\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAlbert Speer: His Battle with Truth\u003c\/i\u003e. She had two children and two grandchildren and lived with her husband, the photographer Don Honeyman, in London. She died in 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 800\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.8 x 8 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 29, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758597734688,"sku":"9780679768128","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d8b20d1666d06494b347ad416612fcde_ba53da79-aa16-4e23-aab3-00e34ecd8ca1.webp?v=1780130135","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/albert-speer-his-battle-with-truth-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}