Goring a biography

David Irving's biography of Hitler's head honcho Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering is a book that cannot be ignored. It is vastly superior to Richard Overy's account which comes across as dull and lacking in personal information.

Irving's biography delves so deep into the life of Goering that it follows the man from birth, his glittering career as a fighter pilot, his first love, his mental breakdown, his recovery, his ascension to power, his second love, his fall from power, and eventually to the mystery surrounding his death.

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Irving has a reputation for his sympathy for Hitler and the Nazis, and is known to make various excuses for them. However, in this book Irving pulls no punches in his treatment of this figure, referring to him as a "bully", and (this made me laugh) a "manicured mountain of perfumed flab." It is only during the Nuremberg trials when he has nothing left to lose that Goering proves his valor.

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