Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

William L. Shirer

Simon and Schuster, 1990 - History - 1249 pages

Since its publication in 1960, William L. Shirer's monumental study of Hitler's German Empire has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of this century's blackest hours.The Rise and Fall of the Third Reichoffers an unparalleled and thrillingly told examination of how Adolf Hitler nearly succeeded in conquering the world. With millions of copies in print around the globe, it has attained the status of a vital and enduring classic.

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Don't be put off by the length of the book, it's easy to read and understand. It isn't written in the dry and stuffy style of many history books. Mr. Shirer had a unique perspective because he was in ...

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This was the choice of our Bancroft 2.0 history book club and this was my fourth (maybe even fifth) and definitely last reading of this classic. It is a great, but not perfect book. Shire could have ...

Contents

• Birth of the Third Reich: 3
• Birth of the Nazi Party: 29
• Versailles Weimar and the Beer Hall Putsch: 52
• The Mind of Hitler and the Roots of the Third Reich: 80
• 192531: 117
• 193133: 150
• 193334: 188
• 193337: 231
• 193437: 279
• The Fall of Blomberg Fritsch Neurath and Schacht: 309
• The Rape of Austria: 322
• The Road to Munich: 357
• Czechoslovakia Ceases to Exist: 428
• The Turn of Poland: 455
• The NaziSoviet Pact: 513
• The Last Days of Peace: 545
• The Launching of World War II: 597
• The Fall of Poland: 625
• Sitzkrieg in the West: 633
• The Conquest of Denmark and Norway: 673
• Victory in the West: 713
• The Thwarted Invasion of Britain: 758
• The Turn of Russia: 793
• A Turn of the Tide: 853
• The Turn of the United States: 871
• 1942Stalingrad: 903
• The New Order: 937
• The Fall of Mussolini: 995
• The Allied Invasion of Western Europe and: 1014
• The Conquest of Germany: 1085
• The Last Days of the Third Reich: 1107
• Afterword: 1145
• Acknowledgments: 1183

About the author

William Lawrence Shirer (February 23, 1904 - December 28, 1993) was an American journalist, war correspondent, and historian, who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, a history of Nazi Germany that has been read by many and cited in scholarly works for more than 50 years. Shirer was born in Chicago and graduated from Coe. Originally a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and the International News Service, Shirer was the first reporter hired by Edward R. Murrow for what would become a CBS radio team of journalists, and he became known for his broadcasts from Berlin, from the rise of the Nazi dictatorship through the first year of World War II (1940). With Murrow, he organized the first broadcast world news roundup, a format still followed by news broadcasts. Shirer wrote more than a dozen books including Berlin Diary (published in 1941); The Collapse of the Third Republic (1969) and a three-volume autobiography, Twentieth Century Journey (1976 to 1990). Shirer received a 1946 Peabody Award for Outstanding Reporting and Interpretation of News for his work at CBS. His book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, won the 1961 National Book Award for Nonfiction and Carey-Thomas Award for non-fiction.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany; A Touchstone book
• Author: William L. Shirer
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 1990
• ISBN: 0671728687, 9780671728687
• Length: 1249 pages
• Subjects: History / General