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You can think of book one of the rise and fall of the third reich as laying the intellectual groundwork for the pages that follow in these chapters, shirer charts the early years of adolf hitlers life, and shows us how the young wouldbe fuehrer went from being an austrian vagabond to the discredited schemer of the infamous. The rise and fall of the third reich shirer william l. World war ii is a period of history that all of us must have some knowledge about, no matter how perfunctory. Shirer gives a clear, detailed, and welldocumented account of how it was that adolf hitler almost succeeded in conquering the world. I feel that makes this book unique in all the histories of the reich.
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