Selling Hitler: Story of the Hitler Diaries - Couverture souple

Harris, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571147267 ISBN 13 : 9780571147267

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 1987

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

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 ...

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.

'A very funny story ... very well told'

Norman Stone, Times Literary Supplement

'Utterly fascinating ... one of the most gripping books I have read in ages'

William L. Shirer, author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

'A masterly account'

Literary Review

'The thrilling, intricate and sadly hilarious anatomy of a swindle ... Entertainingly, yet in enormous detail, Harris solves the mystery of how obvious dross was snatched as gold' Daily Mail

Biographie de l'auteur :

Robert Harris is the author of twelve bestselling novels: the Cicero Trilogy - Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator - Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, The Ghost, The Fear Index, An Officer and a Spy, which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, Conclave and most recently, Munich. Several of his books have been filmed, including The Ghost, which was directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0571147267
• ISBN 13: 9780571147267
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 402