The Secretary: Martin Bormann - The Man Who Manipulated Hitler

Random House Inc, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x1. 1979 hardcover with dust jacket. UNREAD COPY with bright, unmarked, firmly bound pages. Jacket remains bright and glossy with minimal edge wear. This is NOT an ex-library book and not a remainder. Nice copy! Translated into English from the original German by Christa Armstrong and Peter White. 430 pp., includes index and center section of photos. "This book is the story not only of the dramatic discovery of Bormann's remains but the man himself -- the almost incredible story of a not very talented, totally unimaginative, dedicated, ruthless, crafty and tireless bureaucrat who skillfully played on Hitler's weaknesses until he had made himself the most powerful man in Germany next to Hitler himself, the man through whom all the other Nazi elite -- Goebbels, Goering, Speer, Ribbentrop, Schirach -- had to approach the Fuehrer. It is perhaps the most devastating picture yet of the arbitrariness and disorganization of the Third Reich. Even more important, it is a chilling case history of how a desire for power and a will to succeed can, if all other considerations are put aside, carry a man to the top. It is impossible to conclude after reading it that another Bormann could not rise in almost the same way in another country today.