Inside the Third Reich by SPEER, Albert - 1970

New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1970. BCE. Hardcover. A book club edition of Albert Speer's memoirs of his days as a top official in the Nazi Regime leading up to and during World War II. The author was a young architect who fell into favor with Adolph Hitler and rose to become his Minister of Armaments and War Production. After the war he was tried at Nuremberg and sentenced to prison, where he began fashioning this revealing look at the activities of Nazi Germany's ruling elites such as Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, Hess, Goering and even Hitler's girlfriend Eva Braun. With three sections of plates bearing black & white photos of scenes described in the book. Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston; introduction by Eugene Davidson. --- In full black cloth-covered boards with spine titling in gilt and with facsimile of Speer's manuscript to endpapers; wrapped in red dust jacket. --- With slight soiling to cloth, else a sound, tightly-bound copy. Jacket with considerable sunning to spine and light rubbing to extremities; protected in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xxvi, 705 pages .