SHIRER, William L.
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany.
New York: Simon and Schuster , 1960.
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The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich; Inscribed by William Shirer
First edition, later printing of "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 colophon, "To D.J. Jaffle - Best wishes William L Shirer." Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Brownjohn, Chermayeff and Geismar.
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.
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany.
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