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 SUNDAYAs a memoir of life in Germany during the Nazi rise to power, it is unsurpassable ? LITERARY REVIEWThis 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 Biografía del autor 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.