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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
- Sales Rank: #255144 in Books
- Published on: 1991-12-01
- Released on: 1991-12-01
- Ingredients: Example Ingredients
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.00" h x 4.20" w x 2.20" l,
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 1600 pages
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''One of the most important works of history of our time.'' --New York Times
''A splendid work of scholarship, objective in method, sound in judgment, inescapable in its conclusions.'' --New York Times Book Review
From the Publisher
William L. Shirer's THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH is a monumental study of the 20th Century's most frightening moments. Now, 53 years after the end of World War II, it may seem incredible that our most valued institutions, and way of life, were threatened by the menace that Hitler and the Third Reich represented. Shirer's description of events and the cast of characters who played such pivotal roles in defining the course Europe was to take is unforgettable.
Benefiting from his many years as a reporter, and thus a personal observer of the rise of Nazi Germany, and availing himself of some of the 485 tons of documents from the German Foreign Office, captured by the First Army, as well as countless other diaries, phone transcriptions, and other written records, meticulously kept at every level by the Germans, Shirer has put together a brutally objective account of how Hitler wrested political control of Germany, and planned and executed his 6 year quest to dominate the world, only at the end, to see Germany go down in flames.
The combination of personal recollection and amassing of historical evidence distinguishes this book as one of the great historical works of any time. For instance, he recounts that, from his apartment in Plosslgasse, in Vienna, he personally witnessed how perhaps half of Vienna's 180,000 Jews bargained their way to freedom in 1938.
Shirer explains that Hitler believed that France and England were too weak to pose much of a threat to his ambitions to subjugate Czechoslovakia, and later Poland. The momentary relief of Russia as a threat to his domination of Europe as a result of the flurry of diplomatic activity that proceeded his invasion of Poland is fascinating. There is no relief, throughout his narrative, of the brutality of Hitler and such a large contingent of Germans who populate this narrative.
Although 1600 pages long, this is such a richly rewarding experience for anyone who wants to come to grips with the mysterious question as to how this menace to civilization ever came into being, much less was sustained for as long as it was. The answer, unfortunately, is that most of Germany, for a whole host of reasons, embraced Nazism and the fanaticism that Hitler engendered.
For another book that deals with this problem, why so much of Germany lent its support to Hitler, I heartily recommend HITLER'S WILLING EXECUTIONER'S, by Daniel Goldhagen, published by Vintage Books. Although filled with perhaps more statistical details then the non-professional historian would need, this book helps to adumbrate the themes in Shirer's great book.
George Davidson, Director of Production, The Ballantine Publishing Group
About the Author
WILLIAM L. SHIRER (1904-1993) had a distinguished career as foreign correspondent, news commentator, and historian of the contemporary world. He was a war correspondent reporting from Berlin on the rise of the Nazis for the Universal News Service and for CBS. 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.
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60 of 60 people found the following review helpful.
A classic book for students of World War II in Europe
By J. Chambers
I first read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich in high school about 3-4 years after it was published. My best friend had read it, and he pushed his copy on me, urging me to read it too, which I did. My second reading was recently. With more than fifty years between readings, the book came across very differently this time. Since the book was published in 1960, there have been hundreds of documentary and docudrama films made about the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party, the war in Europe, and the downfall of Germany. There have also been hundreds of books on the subject, many of which I've read. So on my second reading, there wasn't much of the material that I wasn't already fairly familiar with. But in 1960 when the book was published, there wasn't a lot of in-depth material on Germany and the Third Reich. Shirer did a bang-up job of documenting the rise of Hitler and the Nazis from his firsthand view, the road to war, early victories, and the eventual downfall due to the Soviets turning the tide of war in the east, and American and British troops closing the noose from the west.
The book was an instant bestseller in 1960, and now, 56 years later, it's still a big seller. Don't be put off by the book's length, it's well worth reading.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
William L. Shirer's classic "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich " is both mesmerizing and horrifying
By C. M Mills
Over half a century ago William L. Shirer, Berlin radio correspondent for CBS radio, wrote a huge history(1200 pages with countless footnotes and quotes from the leading participants in the baleful events recounted!) of "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich." Shirer (1904-1993) was an Iowan who was an eyewitness to the events discussed in this magnus opus. Many in the academic communtiy have been critical of this work and much new information about the Nazi era (1933-45) has been learned since the book was pubished to bestseller status in 1959. I have read many of the great works on Nazi Germany from such modern scholars as Ian Kershaw, Andrew Roberts, Richard J. Evans and a whole shelf of other historians. This in no means, however, that Shirer and his Moby Dick book length study of the Third Reich is to be discarded or lie unread as it moulders on a dusty bookshelf! If I was teaching a course on Nazi Germany this book would be required reading! Shirer is a skilled author who heard most of Hitler's speeches and was in Germany until leaving that police state in December, 1940. His coverage of Hitler, the Nazi movement and the leading thugs of the Third Reich is deeply enriched by his personal knowledge of them. Such criminals as Himmler, Goering, Hess, Goebbel and toadyish generals like Jodl and Keitel are revealed in all their terrible reality.
This classic is remarkable for its depth and scope as Shirer begins with a biography of Adolf HItler the mad genius of Nazi Germany who arose from Austrian obscurity to a Vienna bum and a decorated soldier in World War I to achieve total mastery of Germany in 1933. Hitler hoodwinked many of the leading politicians of his day such as the senile President Paul Hindeberg. He also won diplomatic victories over such democratic politicals as Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain who was fooled at the Munich Conference by the evil Fuehrer.
Hitler's barbaric conquest of Austria, Czecholslovakia, Poland, Belgium, Holland, Norway, Denmark, France was swift and brutal. His demonic regime killed millions of innocent men, women and children including six million Jews in the holocaust.
Hitler made terrible mistakes such as his invasion of the Soviet Union in June, 1941. Operation Sea Lion the campaign to conquer England failed and Winston Churchill the doughty British Prime Minister bearded the odious lion in Berlin named Hitler.
Shirer is best at explaining the estoric and complicated diplomatic and poltical trickery and murder used by Hitler and his henchmen to further their repulsive dream of world conquest. It took the might of the Allies led by the United States, England and most significantly the Soviet Union under Stalin the cruel dicator to defeat the Germans. Nearly 40 million people in Europe were dead from the war in 1945; the scourge of the Nazi menance was at least exorcized from the world!
This exellent work is replete with quotable quotations which I share with you in order to gain a flavor for Shirer's style and masterly command of the gruesome story he weaves:
"The Third Reich which was born on January 30, 1933...lasted twelve years and four months, but in that flicker of time as history goes, it caused an eruption on this earth more violent and shattering than any previously experienced...in its calculated butchery of human life and the human spirit, outdid all the savage oppressions of the previous ages."-p. 5
"From his earliest days Hitler worshipped Wagner (the composer of the Ring Cycle."-p. 101
"...from his final drive for power Hitler had considerable financial backing from a fairly large chunk of the German business world."-p. 145
"No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of Adolf Hitler."-p. 185
Shirer in commenting on the subservience of the old Prussian officer class to Hitler: "...they dishonored themselves as human beings and trod in the mud the moral code of their corps."-p.227
"It was if the President of the United States, the Pope, and the rulers of the small Northern European democracies lived on a different planet from that of the Third Reich and had no more understanding of what was going on in Berlin than of what might be transpiring on Mars."-p. 561
"Hitler's understanding of the United States...was abysmal."-p. 683
Shirer quoting Winston Churchill's great and inspiring speech of June 4, 1940 to the House of Commons in London: "...We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island...we shall never surrender."-p. 738
Shirer speaking of the Nazis campaign against Yuogslavia and Greece which delayed the million strong Nazi army from attacking Russia in a surprise invasion in June 1941 "This postponement of the attack on Russia...was probably the most castrophic single decision in Hitler's career."-p. 824
Shirer speaks of Hitler's understanding of his Axis partner Japan: "...he grossly overestimated Japan's military power."-p. 895
Shirer covers in detail the Stauffenberg and other military plots against Hilter. Also revealing is his relationship with Mussolin and other leaders of Fascism.
The book is so long and is a challenge to plow through but it is one of the great works on the horrible era it chronicles. Essential. A sine qua non on Nazi Germany!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
A Description of Nazi Germany
By Marcus
This work of William Shirer has two great qualities: It is heavily based in primary sources and extremely well written. The history is based in the documents obtained after the war, when the nazi files were captured by the allies. Hitler's My Kampf and his speeches during the period of Nazi Germany were examined and contextualized. The facts and protagonists of the period are presented in a readable and fluent text. Sometimes one feels that is reading a tale. This book can be paired with Richard Evans's work in the Third Reich (The Trilogy) in order to give the reader an enlightened presentation of Nazi Germany.
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