title: The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (A Crest reprint)
author:  William L. Shirer 
description: Shirer&apos;s description of Nazi Germany still holds true. His prose is readable and not held captive to big words.
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  William L. Shirer
  
  THE RISE AND FALL OF THE
  
  THIRD REICH
  
  A History of Nazi Germany
  
  William L. Shirer ranks as one of the greatest of all American correspondents.
  He lived and worked in Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Rome. But it was above all as
  correspondent in Germany for the Chicago Tribune and later the Columbia
  Broadcasting System that his reputation was established. He subsequently wrote
  The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, which is hailed as a classic, and after
  the war he was awarded the Legion d’Honneur. In the post-war years he wrote in
  a variety of fields, and in his seventies he learned Russian, publishing a
  biography of Tolstoy at the age of 89. He died in 1994. His Berlin broadcasts
  were published posthumously by Hutchinson in 1999. It was Hitler’s boast that
  the Third Reich would last a thousand years. Instead it lasted only twelve.
  But into its short life was packed the most cataclysmic series of events that
  Western civilisation has ever known.
  
  William 