Albert Speer: Conversations with Hitler's ArchitectISBN: 978-0-7456-3918-5
Hardcover
180 pages
July 2007, Polity
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"Of all the biographers and writers on the Third Reich, Joachim
Fest was not only good at his craft, but also had the good fortune
to be invited to act, as her describes it, as 'interrogating
editor' for the best selling autobiography of Albert Speer. What he
has done is to create the literary equivalent of a fly-on-the-wall
documentary."
The Spokesman
The Spokesman
"These conversations will be indispensable for specialists in
the history of the Third Reich and fascism."
Political Studies Review
"In its poignancy, this book gives remarkable insights into
three men: Hitler, as a consummate manipulator of people; Speer, as
not particularly bright but vainglorious, weak, unremarkable and
very lonely; and, not least, Fest himself, who proves tenacious and
resourceful. He has convinced me with a work of brilliant analysis:
the best study of Speer I know."
Michael H. Kater, York University, Toronto
"These diary-type notes by Joachim Fest, bestselling historian
of the Third Reich, of his extensive conversations with Albert
Speer make truly absorbing reading."
V.R. Berghahn, Columbia University