I both read and listened to this book on tape (it's 57 hours long, for those of you who are curious). I never truly understood what people meant when they referred to a book as being a "definitive account" of something- but this work is exactly that. Told with an air of objective distance, the Rise ...
Considering the subject matter this was never going to be an easy book to read but would it be factual, objective and well-written?Well, factual certainly: the great number of records and archives that became available after the war has made it possible for historians to have a much clearer picture ...
I've been off and on reading this for over 2 years now. It's interesting but kind of boring and whenever any fiction comes along this gets pushed to the backburner
For anyone eager to gain a fairly comprehensive understanding of the development, growth, decline, and collapse of the Third Reich, this book is it. With Shirer, you have someone who was a witness to many of the events described in this book - e.g. the Nazi Party rallies at Nuremberg, Hitler's march...
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