The Rise and Fall of the Third ReichNational Book Award Winner: The definitive account of Nazi Germany and “one of the most important works of history of our time” (The New York Times). When the Third Reich fell, it fell swiftly. The Nazis had little time to destroy their memos, their letters, or their diaries. William L. Shirer’s sweeping account of the Third Reich uses these unique sources, combined with his experience living in Germany as an international correspondent throughout the war. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich earned Shirer a National Book Award and continues to be 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 is a chilling and illuminating portrait of mankind’s darkest hours. “A monumental work.” —Theodore H. White |
Contents
War Early Victories and the Turning Point | |
The Fall of Poland | |
Sitzkrieg in the West | |
The Conquest of Denmark and Norway | |
Victory in the West | |
The Thwarted Invasion of Britain | |
The Turn of Russia | |
A Turn of the Tide | |
193334 | |
193337 | |
The Road to | |
193437 | |
The Fall of Blomberg Fritsch Neurath and Schacht | |
The Rape of Austria | |
The Road to Munich | |
Czechoslovakia Ceases to Exist | |
The Turn of Poland | |
The NaziSoviet Pact | |
The Last Days of Peace | |
The Launching of World War II | |
The Turn of the United States | |
1942Stalingrad and El Alamein | |
Beginning of the | |
The New Order | |
The Fall of Mussolini | |
The Allied Invasion of Western Europe and the Attempt to Kill Hitler | |
The Conquest of Germany | |
The Last Days of the Third Reich | |
A Brief Epilogue | |
Notes | |
Acknowledgments | |
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