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": The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany.
SHIRER, William L.
Item Number: 119863
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. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Gareth L. Paulowski- with best wishes from William L. Shirer Lenox, Ma June 1, 1985.” Near fine in a good dust jacket with rubbing and wear. 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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