... read with many inside details of what Hitler was like. I read the book in one day as ...
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Very interesting read with many inside details of what Hitler was like. I read the book in one day as I could not put it down. Highly recommend this book for people interested in this subject.
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Going into this book, I wasn't exactly sure what Albert Speer was going to talk about.  He mixes his recollections of his involvement in the Third Reich and his daily prison life.  I enjoyed the book immensely, but I was hoping for more information on his duties in the Third Reich.  Much of the book was about his adventures in gardening in the prison atrium.  Speer does give his psychological insights into why he became a member of the Nazi parties and the duties he was given.  He also, voices his opinions on the other 6 members of Spandau prison and what his life would be like after he was to be released 20 years later.  Overall the book was very interesting reading and it is very detailed (but not to the point of boredom)in everyday activities and protocol.
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Fallada provides a rare insider's view of the hell that Adolf Hitler and his worshipful followers inflicted on ordinary Germans.
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This book has given me a very clear view of what Hitler believed. It's not the simple caricature of a Christian or Atheist as I hear all the time from people trying to throw those views under the bus. This book paints a more nuanced picture that matches and explains reality. Excellent book!
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this book does not either try to immortalize hitler In a positive light nor does it certify him to be  an evil in human flesh but gives the reader the direct  interpretation of hitlers philosophy as to why he did what he did along with his Nazi group of the countless horrible atrocities  in the name of race and superior authority, from his version / perspective .you get to have a deep insight into his thought process right from his boyhood to the future in his quest for dominance.true to the words history repeats itself and so even in this contemporary modern society theres hitler in many of us who secretly wish that that the so called lower beings inferior to us "that we think".. never actually existed or are kept enslaved. a peekaboo into history to know about one of most ill renowned charecters from the past.to get the german worldview during the ww2 you have to definitely read this
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Me being a 20 year old college sudent I have no clue who Stalin or Hitler were. Red this book expecting a long informative experience. What I got was that and much more.

For anyone even a little interested in this age will certainly be pleased with this read. The hardest part for me what keeping in touch with ALL the names, because they are all German or Russian, All I knew or could recongnize was Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Geobells, FDR and Churchill.

Very detailed, explains things that you just don't hear about. Just read it, I cant type enough...
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This was a fantastic history!  I learned so many aspects of Hitler and the war in Europe that I had never heard before.  Such a sad and tragic story of a man with so much genius that was so horribly used for evil.

I highly recommend this book!
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I really enjoyed this book! It's a great read for anyone who is interested in history and psychology. One of the most gripping autobiographies I've read, and it's a good book to keep. Hitler is a very misunderstood character, and after reading this, my understanding about the situation back then, and his state of mind has changed a lot.
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I never liked writing book reports in school years ago and now that I am growing old, Amazon wants me to write them. This was a very good book and the author gave a lot of insight into Hitler's Germany and the way he took hold of the people and commanded the country. Ties with Jewish friends had to be severed and slips of the tongue had to be explained in order to keep down suspicion from the German hierarchy. This book also gives insight into the control the boys and girls clubs had over the youth of that period. The author continually gave out hints that could get Carl's family in trouble so that they would be divided and sent off to the work camps. Did they get caught? You will have to read and see.
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I had never heard of this Dr. Kersten before until a personal friend of mine related how he and his family had benefitted from Dr. Kersten's intervention.  His father, a US citizen living in The Netherlands during WW II, was imprisoned by the Germans.  After his mother, prompted by a friend, sent a letter addressed to Heinrich Himmler, his father was released after 10 days!  My friend, being only 9 years old at the time, never understood how this was possible, seen the reputation of Himmler as a ruthless man, until he read about Dr. Kersten in the Reader's Digest many years later.
After hearing his story I purchased the book and finished reading it within 24 hours.
A very well written book, that captured and held my attention through the end.
Highly recommended reading for WW II history buffs.
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This book is brief, but has all the key information on the life of Hitler. The author does a good job at presenting the facts and stories in a very short snippets and you can easily read this in under an hour. There is much more interesting stuff about Hitler that did not make it in this book, but I think that this is a good concept and it has its value. This is more for the casual readers, history buffs will probably look for something more detailed.
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I finished this book in one day. Once I started I could not put it down
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Great book.  Learned a few things I didn't know about Hitler.  Highly recommend it!!!
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I thought this book was pretty good, it had a lot of details, well put together, and it had excitement. Mortimer does a good job at grouping the details and inserting the eye-witness reports (which make up a bulk of the book)in the right places. He describes the scenes in such detail, you can feel you are almost in the midst of the havoc and chaos being spread throughout London on the night of May 10th 1941. His book gives many heroic tales of ordinary citizens, police men and women, firefighters, and civil defense members. He describes the horrific sights beheld by witnesses and the amazing stories of a near misses between life and death. His use of words paint a picture of the crimsons, yellows, and oranges that engulf the city as the German bombers scream above dropping high explosive and incindeary bombs.
  Mortimer does a good job at achieving his porpouse by describing the horrific events and informing the outside world of the raid that spanned 12 hours. it is very informative and gave me insight to things i never even knew happened during WWII. It opened up my eyes to what that war was really like for the people who went to bed every night with the threat of an air raid disrupting theirs thoughts for the days to come. The constant worry, especially for those living closest to the enemy, the loss of a family member of friend, the destruction of your home, all terrible things that happened to people and kept their nerves on end for years. I would recomend this book to anyone who enjoys reading about WWII history or anyone who just wants to read an interesting non-fiction book about real life heroes and saviors.
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In a pedantic yet mesmerizing tone, this book paints a vivid picture of Hitler's "Final Solution" and how it was implemented. The author's professorial sing song tone reinforces the brutality of the process and causes a feeling of astonishment that murder on such a scale could be contemplated much less implemented.
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I was drawn into Eric Larson's perspective of how insidiously things changed in pre WW2 Germany, how everyday life could go on in sometimes lavish ways, while control was being taken by Hitler and his despots. Clear descriptions of Hitler's friends and foes. And how difficult it was for Americans there to have their views validated by the US government.
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I could not put this book down and I read the book in one weekend.  I alway enjoy reading a book and learning somthing new.  In this I book learned of the French round up of Jews and the horrors of living in Paris during the war.  My husbands Jewish grandparents hid in the countryside around Paris during this time and I wish they were still alive to talk about this event. The character in the title 'Sarah' has a wonderful clear voice in the book. Another important character Julie does not quite fit the story.  This character Julie in another story would spoil the book but here I tolerated her in order for the author to bring the story into current times, contrived but worked for me.