The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler
New York: Scholastic Book Services, 1961. 6th printing thus. Mass market paperback. [4], 188 pages. Footnotes. Cover has wear and is creased. Contains chapters on The Rise of Adolf Hitler; Hitler Conquers Germany; Hitler Conquers Europe, and The Fall of Adolf Hitler. Also contains an Index. This book contains the complete story of Hitler's beginnings...his triumphs...and his downfall. William Lawrence Shirer (February 23, 1904 – December 28, 1993) 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 became 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. Shirer wrote more than a dozen books besides The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, including Berlin Diary (published in 1941); The Collapse of the Third Republic (1969), which drew on his experience living and working in France from 1925 to 1933; and a three-volume autobiography, 20th Century Journey (1976 to 1990). Derived from a Kirkus review: This is an important book recommended for every one and guaranteed to capture and sustain profound attention from the first to the last page. No dull recorder of dates and events, this author imparts his own observations of Hitler as he saw him during his rise to power. Against the political climate of the 20s and 30s, each step toward Hitler's coup is included, the Beer Hall Putsch, his imprisonment and diabolical prediction in rabble-rousing organizing and final chancellorship. Details of his initial bloodless conquests, his treaties and then the events of World War II are presented. German defeat and Hitler's gradual disintegration, all the major events of his "bloody trall" emerge to create a full double portrait, of the paranoid Vienna tramp and of his monstrous deeds. Facts throughout are authenticated with quotations and eye witness reports. A knowledgeable dramatic account. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Adolf Hitler, National Socialism, Nazi, Third Reich, Beer Hall Putsch, Fuhrer, Chancellor, New Order, Assassination Attempt, July 20, Hindenburg
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