Albert Speer. His Battle With Truth.

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Macmillan
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1995
Edition: First Edition

Description: 757 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. Speer's Life During The Third Reich Can Only Be Understood In The Context Of His Strange Relationship With Hitler. Working On This Book For More Than A Decade Showed Me There Were Singular Parellels Between Hitler And Speer. Not Parellel, Of Course, In Historical Significance,but Parellels In Psychological Traits, Which So Decisively Influenced Historical Events. What Is To Be Learned About These Two Men Should Make Us Ponder The Nature Of Love And The Perils Of Emotion.

Publishers Description: 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 ChronicleBW photos.IntroductionPrologueAn Infusion of Stable Stock'I Felt He Was a Human Being'Dizzy with ExcitementA Kind of LoveA Shared Devotion'You've All Gone Completely Insane'A Slight DiscomfortUnleashing MurderA Grey Path IndeedA Moral SoreA Fatal AppointmentAn Irresistable ChallengeA Maelstom of IntriguesA Blinkered CommitmentThe Unbearable Truth'It Was Not Yet My Time'The 20th of JulyScorched Earth'I Stand Unconditionally Behind You'He Is the DreamThe One Interesting PersonA Common ResponsibilitySpandau 1Spandau 2A Twilight of KnowingThe Great LiePostscriptReferencesNotesIndex

ISBN: 9780333645192