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PublisherSimon & Schuster
ISBN-100671728687
ISBN-139780671728687
eBay Product ID (ePID)1071600
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Book TitleRise and Fall of the Third Reich : a History of Nazi Germany
Number of Pages1264 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicEurope / Germany, General
Publication Year1990
GenreHistory
AuthorWilliam L. Shirer
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height2.2 in
Item Weight46.8 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN90-221762
ReviewsHugh Trevor-Roper The New York Times Book Review A splendid work of scholarship, objective in method, sound in judgment, inescapable in its conclusions., "The New York Times Book Review A splendid work of scholarship, objective in method, sound in judgment, inescapable in its conclusions." --Hugh Trevor-Roper, Hugh Trevor-RoperThe New York Times Book ReviewA splendid work of scholarship, objective in method, sound in judgment, inescapable in its conclusions.
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Dewey Decimal943.086
Table Of ContentCONTENTS ForewordBook One:THE RISE OF ADOLF HITLER1. Birth of the Third Reich2. Birth of the Nazi Party3. Versailles, Weimar and the Beer Hall Putsch4. The Mind of Hitler and the Roots of the Third ReichBook Two:TRIUMPH AND CONSOLIDATION5. The Road to Power: 1925-316. The Last Days of the Republic: 1931-337. The Nazification of Germany: 1933-348. Life in the Third Reich: 1933-37Book Three:THE ROAD TO WAR9. The First Steps: 1934-3710. Strange, Fateful Interlude: The Fall of Blomberg, Fritsch, Neurath and Schacht11. Anschluss: The Rape of Austria12. The Road to Munich13. Czechoslovakia Ceases to Exist14. The Turn of Poland15. The Nazi -- Soviet Pact16. The Last Days of Peace17. The Launching of World War IIBook Four:WAR: EARLY VICTORIES AND THE TURNING POINT18. The Fall of Poland19. Sitzkrieg in the West20. The Conquest of Denmark and Norway21. Victory in the West22. Operation Sea Lion: The Thwarted Invasion of Britain23. Barbarossa: The Turn of Russia24. A Turn of the Tide25. The Turn of the United States26. The Great Turning Point: 1942 -- Stalingrad and El AlameinBook Five:BEGINNING OF THE END27. The New Order28. The Fall of Mussolini29. The Allied Invasion of Western Europe and the Attempt to Kill HitlerBook Six:THE FALL OF THE THIRD REICH30. The Conquest of Germany31.Goetterdaemmerung:The Last Days of the Third ReichAfterwordNotesAcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndex
SynopsisSince 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., Before the Nazies could destroy the files, famed foreign correspondent and historian William L. Shirer sifted through the massive self-documentation of the Third Reich, to create a monumental study that has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of one of the most frightening chapters in the history of mankind--now in a special 30th anniversary edition.One of the most important works of history of our time.THE NEW YORK TIMES