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Title: The Third Reich
Review: Save your money. Yet another book about Jewish victimization. Judging from Mr. Burleigh's previous works, this is his area of interest and speciality. It is by no means a new perspective on 'the Third Reich'. It is surely no advance on Wm. L. Shirer's somewhat dated history written close after the war with the expected overuse of adjectives, and the many histories that have followed. Mr. Burleigh writes as so many contemporary academicians, which is to say with extraordinary resort to notes and bibliography (125 pages) as if to impress with his research, similar to any PhD thesis. In places, the text seems to be a gloss on the numerous paragraphs Mr. Burleigh has inserted from other authors. Why did I buy it then? I was gulled by critical reports in several of the news media. I am seventy and get most of my books via Amazon. Had I been in a store and thumbed through "The Third Reich" I would never have bought it. Be happy to donate my copy.
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