The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

by Shirer, William L.

• ISBN13: 9781568490878
• ISBN10: 1568490879
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-30
• Publisher: Buccaneer Books

Summary

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 this century's blackest hours. 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. With millions of copies in print around the globe, it has attained the status of a vital and enduring classic.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
The Rise of Adolf Hitler
Birth of the Third Reich	p. 17
Birth of the Nazi Party	p. 52
Versailles, Weimar and the Beer Hall Putsch	p. 83
The Mind of Hitler and the Roots of the Third Reich	p. 120
Triumph and Consolidation
The Road to Power: 1925-31	p. 167
The Last Days of the Republic: 1931-33	p. 211
The Nazification of Germany: 1933-34	p. 263
Life in the Third Reich: 1933-37	p. 320
The Road to War
The First Steps: 1934-37	p. 385
Strange, Fateful Interlude: The Fall of Blomberg, Fritsch, Neurath and Schacht	p. 423
Anschluss: The Rape of Austria	p. 440
The Road to Munich	p. 485
Czechoslovakia Ceases to Exist	p. 578
The Turn of Poland	p. 612
The Nazi-Soviet Pact	p. 685
The Last Days of Peace	p. 726
The Launching of World War II	p. 791
War: Early Victories and the Turning Point
The Fall of Poland	p. 827
Sitzkrieg in the West	p. 838
The Conquest of Denmark and Norway	p. 889
Victory in the West	p. 939
Operation Sea Lion: The Thwarted Invasion of Britain	p. 996
Barbarossa: The Turn of Russia	p. 1040
A Turn of the Tide	p. 1117
The Turn of the United States	p. 1140
The Great Turning Point: 1942--Stalingrad and El Alamein	p. 1180
Beginning of the end
The New Order	p. 1223
The Fall of Mussolini	p. 1293
The Allied Invasion of Western Europe and the Attempt to Kill Hitler	p. 1316
The Fall of the Third Reich
The Conquest of Germany	p. 1409
Goetterdaemmerung: The Last Days of the Third Reich	p. 1437
A Brief Epilogue	p. 1480
Notes	p. 1487
Acknowledgements	p. 1527
Bibliography	p. 1533
Index	p. 1549
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