num_pages: 880
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 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 His Battle with Truth is a triumph.
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: ALBERT SPEER. SU BATALLA CON LA VERDAD
titlecomplete: ALBERT SPEER. SU BATALLA CON LA VERDAD
characters: Albert Speer
genres: Architecture, Germany, Biography, Nazi Party, European History, War, Nonfiction, History, Holocaust, World War II
ratings_count: 1867
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Biography, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Biography, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Duff Cooper Prize
publisher: VERGARA (SELLO)