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Defying Hitler: A Memoir
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Over 400,000 hardback copies sold in Germany alone and was a number one bestseller list for 42 consecutive weeks A ground-breaking and critically acclaimed memoir that received unprecedented reviews in the UK and rights have been sold to eighteen countries so far This is the first English language paperback edition in the world Selected in newspapers as a Summer Reading choice more times than any other book Paperback to include a new Postscript 'If you have never read a book about Nazi Germany before, or if you have already read a thousand, I would urge you to read DEFYING HITLER. It sings with wisdom and understanding' Craig Brown, MAIL ON SUNDAY As a memoir of life in Germany during the Nazi rise to power, it is unsurpassable' Richard Overy, LITERARY REVIEW 'This account ...provides an astonishingly effective and well-written explanation of how the Nazis managed so easily to exploit Germany's psychological weaknesses' Antony Beevor, DAILY TELEGRAPH

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Sebastian Haffner was born in 1907 in Berlin. He emigrated to England in 1938 and wrote for the OBSERVER for many years. He returned to Germany in 1954, where he became a prominent journalist and historian, writing for DIE WELT and STERN. He died in 1999.

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If you have never read a book about Nazi Germany before, or if you have already read a thousand, I would urge you to read DEFYING HITLER. It sings with wisdom and understanding
*MAIL ON SUNDAY*

As a memoir of life in Germany during the Nazi rise to power, it is unsurpassable
*LITERARY REVIEW*

This account ...provides an astonishingly effective and well-written explanation of how the Nazis managed so easily to exploit Germany's psychological weaknesses
*DAILY TELEGRAPH*

If you have never read a book about Nazi Germany before, or if you have already read a thousand, I would urge you to read DEFYING HITLER. It sings with wisdom and understanding * MAIL ON SUNDAY *
As a memoir of life in Germany during the Nazi rise to power, it is unsurpassable * LITERARY REVIEW *
This account ...provides an astonishingly effective and well-written explanation of how the Nazis managed so easily to exploit Germany's psychological weaknesses -- Antony Beevor * DAILY TELEGRAPH *

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