Selling Hitler

Author Robert Harris
Narrator David Rintoul
Publisher Random House
Publish Date 14 June 2018
Run Time 12 hours and 49 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Conspiracy theories, European history, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Second World War, True crime.

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Random House presents the audiobook edition of Selling Hitler by Robert Harris, read by David Rintoul.

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. . .

Critics Review

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

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Book 5.0

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5.0

This book was mentioned recently on a podcast & described as very funny, which was unexpected to me. It is however, spot on. The very beginning is a little slow admittedly, as often with scene setting. The descriptions of the central journalist, with his obsession with such a revolting period in history, are pretty off-putting. However the story soon picks up & the resulting tale of men (& it is mostly men) led astray by obsession with Hitler & by greed, is highly entertaining and often laugh-out-loud funny. Schadenfreude to be sure, but frankly there's little sympathy to be had for anyone in the whole sorry affair & if people now laugh at them, it's nothing they don't deserve. Though I remember the scandal happening (I was 20), I hadn't paid it much attention at the time, so the details were new to me. Robert Harris has done a brilliant job setting the whole thing out in a clear, and as I said, entertaining fashion. David Rintoul was also excellent & very engaging to listen to.
Highly recommended.

AliceMerray 03/08/2025

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