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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
William L. Shirer
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A sweeping, document-based account of how the Nazi state was built, waged war, committed genocide, and was destroyed.
A journalist-historian's narrative history of Nazi Germany from Hitler's origins to the regime's collapse, drawing heavily on captured German documents and the author's firsthand reporting.
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