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The Most Dangerous Lying Memoirs in History? Kim Philby, Albert Speer & the Art of the Cover-Up
What happens when two of the 20th century’s most notorious men tell their own stories?
In this episode of History Book Buffs, Antonia Senior and Roger Moorhouse dive into two of the most seductive, slippery and deeply unreliable memoirs ever published: Kim Philby’s My Silent War and Albert Speer’s Inside the Third Reich.
Both books are beautifully written. Both were hugely influential. And both are packed with omissions, distortions, self-serving myths and calculated deception.
Roger explores how Albert Speer, Hitler’s architect and Minister of Armaments, used his memoir to fashion himself as…
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