The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler | The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler

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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

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...

The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler | The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler

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