- National Book Award Winner, Third Reich, National socialism, History
Since it's publication five decades ago, [William L. Shirer](/authors/OL28296A/William_L._Shirer)'s monumental study of [Hitler](/authors/OL108070A/Adolf_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](/authors/OL39615A/Ron_Rosenbaum), author of the much-admired [*Explaining Hitler*](/works/OL15826153W/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.
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Epic, grave, earnest and classical in form.
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- gravecomic
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- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- William L. Shirer
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 1249
- Publisher
- fawcett world library, RosettaBooks, Simon and Schuster
- Editions
- 94
- Language
- Japanese, Arabic, German, heb
- ISBN
- 9780449204955
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“ON THE VERY EVE of the birth of the Third Reich a feverish tension gripped Berlin.”
William Lawrence Shirer was an American journalist and war correspondent. He wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, a history of Nazi Germany that has been read by many and cited in scholarly works for more than 50 years. Originally a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and the International News Service, Shirer was the first reporter hired by Edward R. Murrow for what would become a CBS radio team of journalists known as "Murrow's Boys". He became known for his broadcasts from Berlin, from the rise of the Nazi dictatorship through the first year of World War II (1940). With Murrow, he organized the first broadcast world news roundup, a format still followed by news broadcasts
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