The Devil's Mistress: The Diary of Eva Braun, the Woman Who Lived and Died With Hitler

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Summary: 14 year old boy
Review: BY CALLING EVA BRAUN SELFISH, TYRANNICAL , RACIST, NARCISSIST AND CRUEL , THE AUTHOR HAD SIMPLE SPEW HER OWN RACIST VENOM AND HAD DONE GREAT INJUSTICE TO HISTORY.

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Summary: A feeble offering from a fine writer
Review: I feel that Alison Leslie Gold, whose book on Anne Frank I thought very fine, was unwise to choose this topic. In approaching the relationship between Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler, her imagination seems to have recoiled. A kind of paralysis sets in immediately after the brilliantly-written description of the horribly real people who sell the author the "Diary." Alas, these are the last horribly real characters to appear in the novel. The unrelenting banality of the "Diary" entries seems to owe much to a reading of Hannah Arendt, without Arendt's originality. Alas, it not only makes dull prose -- it offers nothing new. This was an opportunity for Gold to say something about a much-neglected topic, offer some insight into a notorious but little-understood relationship, but she has largely passed up the opportunity. Seen beside any real effort, in fiction or non-fiction, to look at the nature of Hitler, I'm afraid that this book pales into insignificance.

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Summary: Horribly biased, unimaginative, boring...
Review: I picked this up because it was in the autobiography/biography section in my library, causing me to believe that it was actual nonfiction, based entirely on factual evidence. A cursory reading quickly led me to believe this could ONLY be fiction. the Eva Braun depicted is such a horrible, slightly deranged, immature, racist, (add more bad things) person, that it gets to the point where it's just not believable anymore.
If you want to read a completely biased fictional biography, read this, but otherwise, if you're the slightly bit objective, i suggest you pick up something else.

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Summary: Vaguely interesting
Review: This book came to me because I picked it up and was curious of this woman. I was greatly disappointed. Gold portrays Eva Braun as one of the most selfish, arrogant, stupid people of her time. Thus suiting her position with Hitler. It is bias. An author deeply analyses what a woman wants with Hitler and uses Braun's diary as a tool to use against Braun and Hitler. Eva's character is utterly unbelievable. She is the worst character I have read. Braun and Hitler are portrayed as deeply perverse at times. If the book was fact, the writing style is understandable but it is not the case. The writing style is too tedious and I only kept reading to review this. She dragged everything slowly. It seemed the 40s would never end. During this long drag of days and months, Gold depicts a horrible/loathsome-worthy Protag. Her true intention in the end. Greatly biased.

This fiction is a horrible read, if you want fact on Eva Braun, use something else.

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Summary: 14 year old boy
Review: This book for my age was disgusting . All mostly this book was about parties , traveling and sex . My mom was not thrilled about the parts with the sex . But , overall this book was stupid . If I were you don't read it , its sick and boring . I gave it three stars because it was just ok . Plus , I recommend that you be over 21 y/o or close . I only got this because I was on a holocaust site and had info on her and I was interested .

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Summary: Drivel
Review: This book, written in the style of a diary, trivializes Eva Braun into the mindless sexual lapdog of Adolf Hitler, and a deviant one to boot. While historical facts are sprinkled throughout the diary's entries, these only serve to sharpen the shallowness of the author's perception into the psyche of the woman who not only stayed loyal to Hitler for so many years, but also flew to Berlin against the Führer's express instructions to marry him and commit suicide. The placid, dependent Eva sketched in this supposed diary lacks the passion and determination that the real Eva must certainly have possessed.

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Summary: Supremely awful and absurd
Review: This is one of the worst books I have ever read: juvenile, pathetically poorly written, historically devoid of *any* semblance of truth and shallow beyond belief. Eva Braun did write 20 pages of a real diary in 1935 and these torn-out extracts survive and are authentic. They reveal several things: Hitler was completely normal sexually (though he did ignore her for long bouts) and he did care for her, though he wasn't passionately enamored with her. She was with him, however. They had a normal, prosaic relationship, devoid of sado-mashochism or other ridiculous perversions detailed here.

It obviously bothers people that a mass murderer could still function normally between the sheets with his mistress and for this reason, trashy books like this are written and find a market. Anyone who lays credence in the idiotic nonsense between the covers of this tome need to seriously consult a non-fiction source on Eva Braun. This is the nadir of published material on her.