The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer

This book of well over 1000 pages is still in print, and is a detailed examination of the Third Reich filled with historical information from German archives captured at the end of the war, along with impressions Shirer gained during his days as a correspondent in Berlin.

Shirer first became famous through his account of those years in his Berlin Diary (published in 1941), but his greatest achievement was his 1960 book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, originally published by Simon & Schuster. He became known for his broadcasts on CBS from the German capital of Berlin through the first year of World War II. William Lawrence Shirer was an American journalist and historian. The accounts of how the United States got involved and how Hitler used Mussolini and Japan are astonishing, and the coverage of the war-from Germany's early successes to her eventual defeat-is must reading This worldwide bestseller has been acclaimed as the definitive book on Nazi Germany it is a classic work. The result is a monumental study that has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of one of the most frightening chapters in the history of mankind. Shirer, who had watched and reported on the Nazis since 1925, spent five and a half years sifting through this massive documentation. The famed foreign correspondent and historian William L. This record included the testimony of Nazi leaders and of concentration camp inmates, the diaries of officials, transcripts of secret conferences, army orders, private letters-all the vast paperwork behind Hitler's drive to conquer the world.

When the bitter war was over, and before the Nazis could destroy their files, the Allied demand for unconditional surrender produced an almost hour-by-hour record of the nightmare empire built by Adolph Hitler.

No other powerful empire ever bequeathed such mountains of evidence about its birth and destruction as the Third Reich. But those 12 years contained some of the most catastrophic events Western civilization has ever known. Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years.

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer