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Albert SpeerGitta Sereny
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Albert Speer

757 pagesFirst published 19957 editions · 2 languages
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Gitta Sereny first saw Albert Speer on trial at Nuremberg. Over the last years of his life she came to know him - through hundreds of hours of conversations - as no other biographer has known a Nazi leader. She interviewed as well the people around him - the celebrated, the notorious and the ordinary. Speer gave Sereny, for her use, a number of unpublished manuscripts, and after his death she obtained access to many of his papers. Out of her probings a huge, and hugely alive, portrait emerges. Sereny takes us through the emotional desert of Speer's childhood and marriage, through his embrace…

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Editions

7 editions · 2 languages
  • Hardcover · English · 1998
    Diane Pub Co · 9780788159183
  • Hardcover · English · 1997
    Random House Value Publishing · 9780517193099
  • Paperback · English · 1996
    Vintage · 800 pages · 9780679768128
  • Other · English · 1996
    Picador · 757 pages · 9780330346979
  • Other · English · 1995
    Knopf · 757 pages · 9780394529158
  • Other · English · 1995
    Macmillan · 757 pages · 9780333645192
BiographyPolitics and governmentNazisWar criminalsNational socialismGermany, biographyGermany, history, 1933-1945Biographies