Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries - Hardcover

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9780571135578: Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0571135579 ISBN 13: 9780571135578
Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1986

Synopsis

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 diairies. The asking price is $4 million...Written with the pace and verve of a thriller and hailed on publication as a classic, "Selling Hitler" tells the story of the biggest fraud in publishing history.

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Written with the pace and verve of a thriller, this is the story of the biggest fraud in publishing history. In 1983, it seemed that one of the most startling discoveries of the century had been made, and that one of the world?s most sought-after documents had finally come to light ? the private diaries of Adolf Hitler. What followed was a fiasco of fakery, greed, the duping of experts, and the exchange of enormous sums of money for world-wide publishing rights.

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“… one of the most gripping books I have read in ages.” – William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

“Impossible to stop reading.” – Observer

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Publisher
Faber and Faber Ltd
Publication date
1986
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0571135579
ISBN 13 
9780571135578
Binding
Hardcover
Rating
  • 3.96 out of 5 stars
    2,121 ratings by Goodreads

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