Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries

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Arrow, 1996 - Biography & Autobiography - 402 pages

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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.

40 years from the alleged discovery, Robert Harris chronicles the gripping tale of one of the biggest frauds in history.

'Brilliantly chronicled' NEW STATESMAN
'A masterly account' LITERARY REVIEW

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About the author (1996)

Author Robert Harris was born in Nottingham, England in 1957. He attended King Edward VII College and Selwyn College. He has worked as a BBC journalist, the Political Editor of the Observer, and a columnist for The Sunday Times and Daily Telegraph. He was named Columnist of the Year by the British Press in 2003. He has written both fiction and nonfiction books and currently lives in Berkshire, England. His works of fiction include; An Officer and a Spy, The Fear Index, Pompeii, Enigma, Fatherland, Dictator, and Conclave.