How long does it take to read Goebbels?
Peter Longerich
Goebbels by Peter Longerich takes about 17 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 17 hours 56 minutes
A long haul
First published 2015. 978 pages, about 268,950 words.
36 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 29 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 17 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 11 hours 12 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"As a young man, Joseph Goebbels was a budding narcissist with constant need of approval. Through political involvement, he found personal affirmation within the German National Socialist Party. In this comprehensive volume, Peter Longerich documents Goebbels' descent into antisemitism and ideology and ascent through the ranks of the Nazi party, where he became an integral member Hitler's inner circle and where he shaped a brutal campaign of Nazi propaganda. In life and in his grisly family suicide, Goebbels was one of Hitler's most loyal accolytes. Though powerful in the party and in wartime Germany, Longerich's Goebbels is a man dogged by insecurities and consumed by his fierce adherence to the Nazi cause. Longerich engages and challenges the careful self-portrait that Goebbels left behind in his diaries, and, as he delves deep into the mind of Hitler's master propagandist, Longerich discovers first-hand how the Nazi message was conceived. This complete portrait of the man behind the message is sure to become a standard for historians and students of the holocaust for years to come"--
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, HISTORY / Holocaust, Biography, National socialism, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Nazis
