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greene_man

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William L. Shirer

Apr 05, 2011 22:59

One of the consequences of using Goodreads to catalog my library has been rediscovery of old books. The very first adult history book I ever read was "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William L Shirer. I found an old hardback copy sometime in the mid 1970s when I was in my mid-teens and couldn't put it down, and somehow finished the 1200 ( Read more... )

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greene_man April 6 2011, 23:00:36 UTC

Shirer is worth reading. Kershaw's biography of Hitler is on my Amazon wish list, and was well recommended by my history prof at Temple-Ambler. I do have Kershaw's "Fateful Choices Ten Decisions That Changed the World: 1940-1941" on my library shelf, and have only read the first chapter, which is about the British decision to continue the fight after the fall of France in May 1940. Halifax, the appeasement-minded British Foreign Minister, was trying to negotiate a settlement with Hitler through Mussolini, but Churchill made the final choice to keep fighting.