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□ More December Titles: The Crucible of War: Year of Alamein, 1942, Volume II (Jonathan Cape/Merrimack, $24.95), by Barrie Pitt, is the second volume in the author’s projected trilogy about El Alamein, the battle between the British Eighth Army and the German-Italian troops commanded by Field Marshal Rommel, which proved to be one of the turning points of World War II.

In Albert Speer: The End of a Myth (St. Martin’s, $14.95), by Matthias Schmidt and translated by Joachim Neugroschel, a German historian privy to the office journal kept by a Speer intimate from 1941 to 1944 makes the case that this “good Nazi” was rather a talented evader and prevaricator with a genius for self-exculpation and -promotion.

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□ More December Titles: The Crucible of War: Year of Alamein, 1942, Volume II (Jonathan Cape/Merrimack, $24.95), by Barrie Pitt, is the second volume in the author’s projected trilogy about El Alamein, the battle between the British Eighth Army and the German-Italian troops commanded by Field Marshal Rommel, which proved to be one of the turning points of World War II.

In Albert Speer: The End of a Myth (St. Martin’s, $14.95), by Matthias Schmidt and translated by Joachim Neugroschel, a German historian privy to the office journal kept by a Speer intimate from 1941 to 1944 makes the case that this “good Nazi” was rather a talented evader and prevaricator with a genius for self-exculpation and -promotion.