rise-and-fall-of-the-third-reich-william-shirer-pdf

THE RISE AND FALLOF THE THIRD REICH ∗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 wasabove all as correspondent in Germany for the Chicago Tribune and later theColumbia Broadcasting System that his reputation was established. He subsequentlywrote 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 yearshe wrote in a variety of fields, and in his seventies he learned Russian, publishinga biography of Tolstoy at the age of 89. He died in 1994. His Berlin broadcastswere published posthumously by Hutchinson in 1999.∗ Formatted in LATEX by motor89hotmail.com. Any comments/corrections appreciated –release V1.0