The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

First published in 1960, this history of National Socialist Germany draws on captured documents, diaries, and the author's years as a correspondent in Berlin. Shirer traces the party's growth, Hitler's chancellorship, the police state, the persecution of Jews, rearmament, and the war from the Polish campaign to the bunker in 1945. He attends to diplomacy, military command, and daily life under the regime as well as to the camps and occupied Europe. The book is a narrative political history of one state, not a memoir of the author's posting and not a purely military campaign study.

Bound in red cloth with a swastika design (fractured for volume II) in black and white. Map endleaves. Black two-volume slipcase printed in black and white.