William L Shirer - Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Newspaper and radio correspondent William L. Shirer's monumental work combining his pre-war experience in Berlin with secret Nazi documents later captured by the Allies. The large book--around 1,400 pages--contains both the history of the outbreak of WWII and the personal perspective of someone living and working in Nazi Germany.

This torrent contains two copies of the book.

The larger PDF file is constructed from scans of the original hardback with some basic character recognition for copy/paste. The text under the graphics is not proof read and contains recognition errors. The PDF file is not cropped and is ready for further editing.

The smaller PDF file is rendered from a TeX version of a later paperback edition of the book with a new Afterword by Shirer before his death. This text contains few errors, but also lacks the index in the first PDF. You can use the two copies to resolve almost any typo in either edition, and both are fully readable as-is.

Three small graphics files contain the hardback dustcover and the first paperack edition cover as well as the cover of the 30th anniversary paperback edition, which advertised Shirer's new afterword.

The back of the paperback contains the following text:

Quote:

THE BOOK THAT
SHOOK THE
CONSCIENCE
OF THE WORLD

The explosive acclaim that skyrocketed this national best
seller to international fame is not only proof of its massive im-
pact on our own time but a significant measure of its perma-
nent value as a historical treasure for generations to come

"ONE OF THE MOST SPECTACULAR STORIES EVER TOLD."
-John Gunther

"A MONUMENTAL WORK . . . A GRISLY AND THRILLING STORY."
-Theodore White

"ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT WORKS OF HISTORY OF OUR
TIME." -The New York Times

"A WORK OF THE FIRST ORDER. A SEARCHLIGHT THROWN WITH
TERRIBLE INTENSITY ON ONE OF THE DARKEST DRAMAS IN
THE HISTORY OF MANKIND." -New York Herald Tribune

"A MASTERFUL AND VIVID ACCOUNT. IMMEDIATELY READABLE
FROM COVER TO COVER." -Saturday Review

"SUPERB HISTORY." -Chicago Tribune

"THE DEFINITIVE WORK ON NAZI GERMANY."
-Frederick L. Schuman
Williams College

F A W C E T T W O R L D L I B R A R Y