The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: William L. Shirer
- First Published: 1961
- Time of Work: 1899–1945
- Setting: Germany, Austria, France, England, Poland, and Czechoslovakia
- Principal Characters: Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Paul von Hindenburg, Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Power, personal or social, Europe or Europeans, World War II, Rulers, Politicians, Nazism or Nazis, Germany or German people, Holocaust, Jewish, Biography, Concentration camps
- Locales: France, England, Germany, Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia
Form and Content
In The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler, William L. Shirer has written a precisely focused political and military biography of the individual who determined the direction of European history during the second quarter of the twentieth century. Hitler’s personality, ambitions, actions, achievements, and defeats dominate this work to the exclusion of even such closely related subjects as the war in the Pacific, the United States’ role in the fighting, and such major figures as Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Hirohito. Instead, this biography attempts to...
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