SINCE ITS PUBLICATION FIVE DECADES AGO, William L. Shirer’s monumental study of Hitler’s empire has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of the twentieth century’s blackest hours. A worldwide bestseller with millions of copies in print, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich offers an unparalleled and thrillingly told examination of how Adolf Hitler nearly succeeded in conquering the world.
Here, in a thoughtful new introduction for the fiftieth anniversary of its National Book Award win, Ron Rosenbaum, author of the much-admired Explaining Hitler, takes a fresh and penetrating look at this vital and enduring classic and the role it continues to play in today’s discussions of the history of Nazi Germany.
No followup mention of Hitlet's well documented death in Argentina in the sixties or the Fourth Reich breakaway in Antarctica.
Author(s): William L. Shirer
Publisher: Rosetta Books
Year: 2011
Language: English
Commentary: bookmarked as shown
Pages: 1414
Tags: History;Germany;Nazi Party;Third Reich;Hitler;Mussolini;Nazification;World War II;
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
A Brief Epilogue
Afterword
Notes
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
