Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
This reappraisal of Speer takes us from the emotional desert of his childhood & marriage & his service to Adolf Hitler, to his years in Spandau prison where he struggled with his guilt & criminal inaction. B&W photos.
This reappraisal of Speer takes us from the emotional desert of his childhood & marriage & his service to Adolf Hitler, to his years in Spandau prison where he struggled with his guilt & criminal inaction. B&W photos.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679768128 (0679768122)
Publish date: October 29th 1996
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 757
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
European Literature,
Cultural,
War,
Biography Memoir,
World War II,
German Literature,
Holocaust,
Germany
Late in 1989, when I was living and working on contract overseas, I read Albert Speer's book [b:Inside the Third Reich|853201|Inside the Third Reich|Albert Speer|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1344664347s/853201.jpg|838705], in which he described, in extensive detail, the blossoming of his career, fir...
a c600 page account of Speer's life from youth to death via WW2 and Nuremberg. Absolutely fascinating and heartily recommended. Speer is one of the more interesting Nazis in that he acknowledged the evil that he had perpetrated. Read this and the two Antony Beevor books: Stalingrad + Berlin and you'...