Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth - Gitta Sereny Reviews

Albert Speer's life story is probably the most unique in 20th Century history. Here was a man who was deeply intelligent and very talented. He was a highly gifted architect who just so happened to Adolph Hitler's closest friend. Albert Speer stumbled into the Third Reich after he was commissioned by Hitler to rebuild Germany ...  Read the complete review

Wadey to Minor, Minor does a maradonna turn around Ingle, through to Woods, he dummies it past Horgan, but wait Wadey comes in with a flying tackle, amazing. Woods gets up and lands a right hook but Wadey nuts him and he falls down. The ball is then played out wide to Booooothy who controls it well on the chest before smashing a 70 yard shot past ...  Read the complete review

Gitta Sereny has created a masterpiece of great significance in this work and the unique access she had to a man who was at the centre of Hitler's regime. She has a tough and inquistorial style which pushed Speer hard to face questions which quite obviously haunted the man in later life. Sereny is thourough in the examination of the ...  Read the complete review

Gitta Sereny certainly likes to pick controversial subjects to write about. Following her books about child murderer Mary Bell and death camp commandant Franz Stagl comes her biography of Albert Speer, the Third Reich’s Minister of Armaments, Hitler’s personal architect and probably his closest friend. The book starts, as it ...  Read the complete review