William Lawrence Shirer is an American journalist, war correspondent, and historian whose books about the history of the Third Reich are widely popular. The second volume on Nazism in Germany.
Contents:
To the Reader.
Book One
Hitler’s Rise to Power.
Chapter 1. The Birth of the Third Reich
Chapter 2. The Birth of the Nazi Party
Chapter 3. Versailles, Weimar and “The Beer Hall Putsch”
Chapter 4. Hitler’s Views and the Origins of the Third Reich
Book Two.
Triumph and Consolidation of Power
Chapter 5. The Road to Power: 1925–1931
Chapter 6. The Last Days of the Republic: 1931–1933
Chapter 7. Pacification of Germany: 1933–1934
Chapter 8. Life in the Third Reich: 1933–1937
Book Three.
The Road to War
Chapter 9. First Steps: 1934–1937
Chapter 10. The Fall of Blomberg, Fritsch, Neurath, and Schacht
Chapter 11. Anschluss: Violence Against Austria
Chapter 12. The Road to Munich
Chapter 13. Czechoslovakia Ceases to Exist
Chapter 14. Poland Next in Line
Chapter 15. The German-Soviet Pact
Chapter 16. The Last Days of Peace
Chapter 17. The Beginning of World War II
Book Four.
War: First Victories and the Great Coup
Chapter 18. The Fall of Poland
Chapter 19. The Sitting War in the West
Chapter 20. Seizure of Denmark and Norway
Chapter 21. Victory in the West
Chapter 22. Operation “Sea Lion”—A Botched Invasion of England
Chapter 23. “Barbarossa”: Russia Next in Line
Chapter 24. Events Take Another Turn
Chapter 25. The United States Next in Line
Chapter 26. The Great Turning Point. 1942: Stalingrad and El Alamein
Book Five.
The Beginning of the End
Chapter 27. “New Order”
Chapter 28. The Fall of Mussolini
Chapter 29. Allied Invasion of Western Europe and an Attempt on Hitler
Book Six.
The Fall of the Third Reich
Chapter 30. Occupation of Germany
Chapter 31. The Last Days of the Third Reich
Epilogue. Sanitary Rules for the Bubonic Plague Barracks.