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Selling Hitler

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In 1983, the alleged private diaries of Adolf Hitler were discovered, igniting global fascination. Selling Hitler recounts the ensuing scandal involving forgery, deceit, and greed, as experts were duped and vast sums exchanged for publishing rights. This gripping narrative exposes the fallout from one of the century's most sensational controversies.
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Spring 1983: it seemed that one of the most startling discoveries of the century had been made, and that one of the private diaries of Adolf Hitler had finally come to light. What followed was a fiasco of fakery, greed, the duping of experts, and the exchange of huge sums of money for world-wide publishing rights.

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His classic account of THE HITLER DIARIES - 'Impossible to Stop Reading' Spring 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 extraordinary sums of money for world-wide publishing rights. But that was just the beginning of the story. . .

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Described as a stunning and compelling account of human folly and duplicity, Selling Hitler is praised for its brilliant research and narration, remaining as relevant and captivating today as it was forty years ago, according to William Boyd.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780099791515

Publisher: Cornerstone

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 August 1996

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Arrow Books Ltd

Illustration: 1

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 199.0mm

Weight: 268g

Pages: 368

About the Author

Robert Harris is the author of fifteen 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, Munich, The Second Sleep, V2 and Act of Oblivion. His work has been translated into forty languages and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby.

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