Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (954 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0394529154 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 757 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
With 24 pages of photographs
Researched and written over an eight year period, Albert Speer weaves together information from innumerable personal interviews with Speer, his family, close friends, and professional colleagues, the author's own solid grasp of German history, and critical readings of Speer's own writings, including various drafts of his memoirs, Inside the Third Reich, first published in 1969. Gitta Sereny's biography meticulously re-creates for the reader the professional, emotional, and psychological life of Albert Speer, Hitler's architect and later his Minister of Armaments. --Bertina Loeffler. Throughout, Sereny consciously avoids the pitfall of many Speer biographers, who seek to either blame or exculpate Speer for the Nazi's atrocities. Throughout the 12-year history of the Third Reich, Speer remained one of Hitler's most trusted confidants and one of the most powerful political leaders of the Nazi party. Instead, she succeeds in helping the reader underst
Complexity, Ambiguity; Human I have never seen an author come close to Sereny in her ability to portray and accept the complexity of human nature, which she does with this Albert Speer book to the nth degree; it is a work of art.This book is never dry and never didactic. Unlike like some historians, Ms. Sereny never forgets that at the root of her story lie human beings, and righfully they should be at the center of any story of human history. She always relates it back to the huma. j'aimelire said A+ for Mrs. Sereny and the amount of time, dedication and research she put into the "Speer project." The BEST. Congratulations, even if the author has now passed away since, to Mrs. Sereny. You know this book has been well researched with interviews with many witnesses of the Hitler-Speer. Void of judgments from the author: professional. Kept my interest mainly because of the way the author approached the subject. a great research and wonderfully well written. To me, this book is the very best book written about Speer, more than the ones Speer wrote about himsel. Albert Speer was the most interesting of all the national Scott Kirby Albert Speer was the most interesting of all the national Socialist leaders definitely the smartest and definitely not one of Hitler's psycho slugs. if you're interested in learning more about these characters this guy is the most intriguing because he's the only one that wasn't a decadent psychotic