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Subtitle: A History of Nazi Germany
National Book Award Carey-Thomas Award for Nonfiction
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 the twentieth century’s blackest hours. 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, as well as countless other diaries, phone transcriptions, and other written records, meticulously kept at every level by the Germans, Shirer put together a brutally objective account of how Hitler wrested political control of Germany, and planned and executed his six-year quest to dominate the world, only to see Germany go down in flames. Now, 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. 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.
New York Times: "One of the most important works of history of our time." New York Times Book Review: "A splendid work of scholarship, objective in method, sound in judgment, inescapable in its conclusions."
Index of 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. Czechoslavakia 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
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William L. Shirer
He has 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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Grover Gardner
Also known as Tom Parker. He is Director of Blackstone’s Audio Studios, an Award-winning Narrator with more than 650 titles to his credit. Named one of the Best Voices of the Century and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly and has earned more than 20 Earphones Awards. Narrator’s Comments: "It’s terrible to say that the Nazi era is fascinating, but it is. Yet, more importantly, we learn how short a slope it is to the sort of brutality and mindless belief in authority that took hold of people at that time."
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The Phantom of the Opera
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Gaston Leroux
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2666
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Roberto Bolaño
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Alphaville
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Michael Codella
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American Gangster
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Mark Jacobson
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Atlas Shrugged
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Ayn Rand
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Autobiography of Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
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Blood Diamonds
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Greg Campbell
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Che Guevara
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Jon Lee Anderson
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Cryoburn
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Lois McMaster Bujold
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Dark Dude
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Oscar Hijuelos
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First Drop of Crimson
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Jeaniene Frost
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Flash Forward
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Robert J. Sawyer
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Greasing the Piñata
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Tim Maleeny
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Jackie as Editor
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Greg Lawrence
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Matterhorn
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Karl Marlantes
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Poser
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Claire Dederer
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Shibumi
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Trevanian
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Striking Back
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Aaron J. Klein
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The Book of Spies
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Gayle Lynds
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The Fall of Che Guevara
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Henry Butterfield Ryan
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The Prestige
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Christopher Priest
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The Tortilla Curtain
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T.C. Boyle
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A. A. Milne
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