One of the most important works of history of our time.
Hugh Trevor-Roper
The New York Times Book Review
A splendid work of scholarship, objective in method, sound in judgment, inescapable in its conclusions.
Theodore H. White
A monumental work, a grisly and thrilling story.
John Gunther
One of the most spectacular stories ever told. 作者简介:
William L. Shirer had a distinguished career as a foreign correspondent,news commentator, and historian of the contemporary world. He reported from Berlin for the Universal News Service and for CBS on the rise of the Nazis and he covered their fall as a war correspondent. Out of these reports grew his best-sellers Berlin Diary and The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.Shirer authored many other best-selling books, including The Collapse of the Third Republic, Love and Hatred: The Stormy Marriage of Leo and Sonya Tolstoy, and an autobiography, 20th Century Journey: A Memoir of a Life and the Times, composed of three volumes--The Start: 1904-1930, The Nightmare Years: 1930-1940, and A Native's Return." 1945-1988. Shirer died in 1993 in Boston, Massachusetts.
【目录】
FOREWORD
Book One: THE RISE OF ADOLF HITLER
1. BIRTH OF THE THIRD REICH
2. BIRTH OF THE NAZI PARTY
3. VERSAILLES, WEIMAR AND THE BEER HALL PUTSCH
4. THE MIND OF HITLER AND THE ROOTS OF THE THIRD REICH
Book Two: TRIUMPH AND CONSOLIDATION
5. THE ROAD TO POWER: 1925--31
6. THE LAST DAYS OF THE REPUBLIC: 1931--33
7. THE NAZIFICATION OF GERMANY: 1933--34
8. LIFE IN THE THIRD REICH: 1933--37
Book Three: THE ROAD TO WAR
9. THE FIRST STEPS: 1934--37
10. STRANGE, FATEFUL INTERLUDE: THE FALL OF BLOMBERG,FRITSCH, NEURATH AND SCHACHT
11. ANSCHLUSS: THE RAPE OF AUSTRIA
12. THE ROAD TO MUNICH
13. CZECHOSLOVAKIA CEASES TO EXIST
14. THE TURN OF POLAND
15. THE NAZI--SOVIET PACT
16. THE LAST DAYS OF PEACE
17. THE LAUNCHING OF WORLD WAR II
Book Four:WAR:EARLY VICTORIES AND THE TURNING POINT
18.THE FALL OF POLAND
19.SITZKRIEG IN THE WEST
20.THE CONQUEST OF DENMARK AND NORWAY
21.VICTORY IN THE WEST
22.OPERATION SEA LION:THE THWARTED INVASION OF BRITAIN
23.BARBAROSSA:THE TURN OF RUSSIA
24.A TURN OF THE TIDE
25.THE TURN OF THE UNITED STATES
26.THE GREAT TURNING POINT:1942——STALINGRAD AND EI,AI.AMEIN
Book Five:BEGINNING OF THE END
27.THE NEW ORDER
28.THE FALL OF MUSSOLINl
29.THE ALLIED INVASION OF WESTERN EUROPE AND THE ATTEMPT TO KILL HITLER
Book Six:THE FALL OF THE THIRD REICH
30.THE CONQUEST OF GERMANY
31.Goetterdaemmerung:THE LAST DAYS OF THE THIRD REICH
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