Rise and Fall of the Third Reich : A History

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.

William L. Shirer has had a distinguished career as foreign correspondent, news commentator, and historian of the contemporary world. He reported from Berlin for the Universal News Service and for CBS on the rise of the Nazis and he covered their all as a war correspondent. Out of these reports grew his best-sellers Berlin Diary and The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, which has sold more copies for the Book-of-the-Month Club than any other book in the club's history.

Shirer is the author of many other best-selling books, including The Collapse of the Third Republic and an autobiography, Twentieth Century Journey: A Memoir of a Life and the Times, composed of three volumes -- The Start: 1904-1930, The Nightmare Years: 1930-1940, and A Native's Return: 1945-1988. He is at work on a new book about the last two weeks of Tolstoy's life.

CONTENTS

Foreword

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
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

Afterword

Notes

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index

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Rise and Fall of the Third Reich : A History of Nazi Germany

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