The rise and fall of the Third Reich : a history of Nazi Germany
Shirer, William L. (William Lawrence), 1904-19932011
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This book chronicles the Nazi's rise to power, conquest of Europe, and dramatic defeat at the hands of the Allies. When the Third Reich fell, it fell swiftly. The Nazis had little time to cover up their memos, their letters, or their diaries. William L. Shirer’s definitive book on the Third Reich uses these unique sources. Combined with his personal experience with the Nazis, living through the war as an international correspondent, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich not only earned Shirer a National Book Award but is recognized as one of the most important and authoritative books about the Third Reich and Nazi Germany ever written. The diaries of propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as well as evidence and other testimony gained at the Nuremberg Trials could not have found more artful hands. Shirer gives a clear, detailed and well-documented account of how it was that Adolf Hitler almost succeeded in conquering the world. With millions of copies in print, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich has become one of the most authoritative books on one of mankind’s darkest hours. Shirer focuses on 1933 to 1945 in clear detail. Here is a worldwide bestseller that also tells the true story of the Holocaust, often in the words of the men who helped plan and conduct it. It is a classic by any measure.
Main title:
The rise and fall of the Third Reich : a history of Nazi Germany / William L. Shirer ; with a new introduction by Ron Rosenbaum.
Edition:
50th anniversary ed.
Imprint:
New York : Simon & Schuster, c2011.
Collation:
xxviii, 1249 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"National Book Award winner"--Cover.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Book One THE RISE OF ADOLF HITLER -- 1.Birth of the Third Reich -- 2.Birth of the Nazi Party -- 3.Versailles, Weimar and the Beer Hall Putsch -- 4.The Mind of Hitler and the Roots of the Third Reich -- Book Two TRIUMPH AND CONSOLIDATION -- 5.The Road to Power: 1925-31 -- 6.The Last Days of the Republic: 1931-33 -- 7.The Nazification of Germany: 1933-34 -- 8.Life in the Third Reich: 1933-37 -- Book Three THE ROAD TO WAR -- 9.The First Steps: 1934-37 -- 10.Strange, Fateful Interlude: The Fall of Blomberg, Fritsch, Neurath and Schacht -- 11.Anschluss: The Rape of Austria -- 12.The Road to Munich -- 13.Czechoslovakia Ceases to Exist -- 14.The Turn of Poland -- 15.The Nazi-Soviet Pact -- 16.The Last Days of Peace -- 17.The Launching of World War II -- Book Four WAR: EARLY VICTORIES AND THE TURNING POINT -- 18.The Fall of Poland -- 19.Sitzkrieg in the West -- 20.The Conquest of Denmark and Norway -- 21.Victory in the West --Contents note continued: 22.Operation Sea Lion: The Thwarted Invasion of Britain -- 23.Barbarossa: The Turn of Russia -- 24.A Turn of the Tide -- 25.The Turn of the United States -- 26.The Great Turning Point: 1942---Stalingrad and El Alamein -- Book Five BEGINNING OF THE END -- 27.The New Order -- 28.The Fall of Mussolini -- 29.The Allied Invasion of Western Europe and the Attempt to Kill Hitler -- Book Six THE FALL OF THE THIRD REICH -- 30.The Conquest of Germany -- 31.Goetterdaemmerung: The Last Days of the Third Reich.
ISBN:
9781451651683 (pbk)9781451642599 (hbk)
Dewey class:
943.086
Language:
English
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BRN:
48777