Saturday, July 15, 2006

The Rise & Fall Of The Third Reich: William Shirer



The fifth book I am metioning here belongs to a well known historian William Shirer and the book is The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

It is history of whole second world war including a very good sketch of Adolf Hitler's life. What impressed me was the style of Shirer's. The way he put the events into words is brilliant.

The book throws a detail light on each and every events of the war.

Though William Shirer himself had served under third reich during the first half of it's brief life, watching at first Adolf Hitler consolidate his power as dictator of the great but baffling nation.

For me, this book is like an encyclopaedia of world war second and Adolf hitler.

The book was first published in 1960 and untill today this work of Shirer's has no match as far as the history of second world war is concerned.

This book, I love a lot.

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