The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany.
“Many of the books tossed into the flames in Berlin that night by the joyous students under the approving eye of Dr. Goebbels had been written by authors of world reputation": First Edition of William Shirer's Classic work The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich; Signed by Him
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany.
SHIRER, William L.
Item Number: 118723
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960.
First edition “one of the most important works of history of our time” (Orville Prescott, New York Times). Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Signed by William L. Shirer on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Brownjohn, Chermayeff and Geismar. First editions are rare signed.
Hailed as the definitive study of Adolf Hitler, the rise of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and World War II. It won the 1961 National Book Award for Nonfiction and the Carey–Thomas Award for non-fiction. In 1962, the Reader's Digest magazine serialization reached some 12 million additional readers. In a New York Times Book Review, Hugh Trevor-Roper praised it as "a splendid work of scholarship, objective in method, sound in judgment, inescapable in its conclusions" (Shirer, 1990). A film adaptation was broadcast by the U.S. ABC television network in 1968, one hour a night over three nights.
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