The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Analysis

If Hitler had gotten his way, the "Third Reich" would have stretched far beyond the traditional borders of Germany itself, swallowing up vast stretches of other European territories. For a time, it...

In The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer speaks to us as both a journalist and an historian, which means that he occasionally speaks to us in a first-person narrative voice (as he relates ev...

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich isn't a biography in the traditional, literary sense of the word. Unlike most biographies, it doesn't focus exclusively on the history of one person's life. Aft...

Throughout much of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer maintains an authoritative and more-or-less-detached tone that reflects his position as a journalist and an historian. It's a tone th...

Although Shirer takes his journalistic integrity and his role as an amateur historian very seriously in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, the book has none of the academic jargon or highly tech...

We don't know about you, but we figure that The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany is about as self-explanatory as it gets. Just imagine if other book titles were so clear...

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich has four—count 'em, four—epigraphs. Let's take them one by one.I have often felt a bitter sorrow at the thought of the German people, which is so estimable...

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich has two endings. The first concludes the book's thirty-first chapter, which is named for the mythical "twilight of the gods." The second ends the book's "brief...

We won't lie to you: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is an intimidating book to drag off the shelf. The problem isn't that Shirer's writing is dense or hard to understand, because actually, it...

The Measure of a ManThe exposition that Shirer gives us in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich tries to explain two basic things: (1) the ideologies and ambitions that made Adolf Hitler the man he...

Given the fact that The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich isn't actually a novel, it's a little unorthodox to think about it in terms of Booker's Seven Basic Plots. With that said, Adolf Hitler's li...

In the first two books of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer describes Adolf Hitler's life from his birth in 1889 up to the first four years of his term as Germany's Nazi Fuehrer. By the...

Shirer spent many years in the company of Mohandas Gandhi. According to at least one source, the journalist in the film Gandhi is based on William L. Shirer. (Source)Because of problems with radio...

There's nothing particularly steamy about The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, but the book gets an R rating because of the sexually-explicit content that Shirer sometimes chooses to discuss. Take...

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