Annal:1995 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography
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Results of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the year 1995. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography
- Nonfiction books
- Nonfiction authors
- Biography books
- Biography authors.
Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth
- 1995 JT Black-Biography winner
- 1995 Whitbread-Biography shortlist
- Score: 16.45
Albert Speer was not only Hitler’s architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer’s closest friend—his “unhappy love.” Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge of the Holocaust. Now this enigma of a man is unveiled in a monumental biography by a writer who came to know Speer intimately in his final years. Out of hundreds of hours of interviews, Sereny unravels the threads of Speer’s personality: the genius that made him indispensable to the German war machine, the…
