The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer

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Book name:	The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (2024)
Category:	Dictatorship
Author:	William L. Shirer
Pages:	1280 pages
Language:	English
Publication data:	Jan. 1, 1960, midnight

This book provides a comprehensive history of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, from its inception to its downfall during World War II. The author, an American journalist who reported from Germany and Austria during the Nazi era, uses firsthand accounts, interviews, and Nazi documents to detail Hitler's rise to power, the mechanisms of the Nazi state, and the events leading to and during World War II, including the Holocaust. The book concludes with an analysis of why the Third Reich fell and the aftermath of its collapse. The 963rd greatest book of all time

About the author

William L. Shirer

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William Lawrence Shirer was an American journalist and historian. He became known for his broadcasts on CBS from the German capital of Berlin through the first year of World War II.

Shirer first became famous through his account of those years in his Berlin Diary (published in 1941), but his greatest achievement was his 1960 book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, originally published by Simon & Schuster. This book of well over 1000 pages is still in print, and is a detailed examination … Read more