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  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409021957
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368

Selling Hitler

The Story of the Hitler Diaries




FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF AN OFFICER AND A SPY AND THE SECOND SLEEP

'Impossible to stop reading' OBSERVER
'Thrilling, intricate and hilarious' DAILY MAIL

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

  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409021957
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368

About the author

Robert Harris

Robert Harris is the author of thirteen 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 and The Second Sleep. Several of his books have been filmed, including The Ghost, which was directed by Roman Polanski. 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. His next book, V2, is coming out in autumn 2020.

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Praise for Selling Hitler

A stunning and compelling story of human folly, duplicity and wishful thinking. Brilliantly researched and narrated, Selling Hitler is as fascinating and as telling today as it was forty years ago

William Boyd