Albert Speer. His Battle With Truth

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Publisher: Alfred A Knopf Inc
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 1995
Edition: First Edition

Description: 757 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Albert Speer was not only Hitlers architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrers 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 Speers 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 Hitlers 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 ChronicleB&W photos.IntroductionPrologueAn Infusion of Stable StockI Felt He Was a Human BeingDizzy with ExcitementA Kind of LoveA Shared DevotionYouve All Gone Completely InsaneA Slight DiscomfortUnleashing MurderA Grey Path IndeedA Moral SoreA Fatal AppointmentAn Irresistable ChallengeA Maelstom of IntriguesA Blinkered CommitmentThe Unbearable TruthIt Was Not Yet My TimeThe 20th of JulyScorched EarthI Stand Unconditionally Behind YouHe Is the DreamThe One Interesting PersonA Common ResponsibilitySpandau 1Spandau 2A Twilight of KnowingThe Great LiePostscriptReferencesNotesIndex

ISBN: 0394529154