Selling Hitler: 40th Anniversary Special Edition (Paperback)
Robert Harris (author)Published: 01/08/1996
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'Impossible to stop reading' OBSERVER
'Thrilling, intricate and hilarious' DAILY MAIL
APRIL 1945: From the ruins of Berlin, a Luftwaffe transport plane takes off carrying secret papers belonging to Adolf Hitler. Half an hour later, it crashes in flames.
APRIL 1983: In a bank vault in Switzerland, a German magazine offers to sell more than 50 volumes of Hitler's secret diaries. The asking price is $4 million.
40 years from the alleged discovery, Robert Harris chronicles the gripping tale of one of the biggest frauds in history.
'Brilliantly chronicled' NEW STATESMAN
'A masterly account' LITERARY REVIEW
Publisher: Cornerstone
ISBN: 9780099791515
Number of pages: 368
Weight: 267 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 22 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
A stunning and compelling story of human folly, duplicity and wishful thinking. Brilliantly researched and narrated, Selling Hitler is as fascinating and as telling today as it was forty years ago - William Boyd
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“Forging ahead....."”
Having read all of Harris's fiction, I braved his non fiction-and how glad I was I did. The story of the forging and selling of the Hitler diaries is a lesson in gullibility. Despite knowing what happened to... More
“Epic”
I got this for my Dad. He’s 95 and lately been reading a lot of WW2 focused stuff. He’s enjoying this. It’s good to find him things he’s into. I haven’t read it yet but Dad’s keen.
“Farcical but Compelling”
As I read this book I was constantly struck by how utterly awful and idiotic the majority of the men involved in this whole sorry farce were. Small people with big, cruel ideas who were too hungry for money or fame or... More
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