by William L. Shirer
© 1959, 1960 by William L. Shirer
Published by Simon and Schuster, Inc.
Sixteenth Printing

 

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Thomas Carlyle
The Varieties of Religious Experience, by William James
Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays, by Arthur Schopenhauer
War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign To Create a Master Race, by Edwin Black
Porphyry's Against the Christians: The Literary Remains, edited and translated by R. Joseph Hoffman

Table of Contents:

• 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 EL ALAMEIN

• Book Five: BEGINNING OF THE END

  • 27. THE NEW ORDER

  • 28. THE FALL OF MUSSOLINI

  • 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

• NOTES

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

• BIBLIOGRAPHY

• INDEX