The fiftieth anniversary edition of the National Book Awardwinning bestseller that is the definitive study of Adolf Hitler, the rise of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and World War II. This special edition now features a new introduction by Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler and How the End Begins.This worldwide best-seller has been acclaimed as the definitive book on Nazi Germany; it is a classic work.

When the Third Reich fell, it fell swiftly. The Nazis had little time to cover up their memos, their letters, or their diaries. William L. Shirers definitive book on the Third Reich uses these unique sources. Combined with his personal experience with the Nazis, living through the war as an international correspondent, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich not only earned Shirer a National Book Award but is recognized as one of the most important and authoritative books about the Third Reich and Nazi Germany ever written. The diaries of propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as well as evidence and other testimony gained at the Nuremberg Trials could not have found more artful hands.Shirer gives a clear, detailed and well-documented account of how it was that Adolf Hitler almost succeeded in conquering the world. With millions of copies in print, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich has become one of the most authoritative books on one of mankinds darkest hours. Shirer focuses on 1933 to 1945 in clear detail. Here is a worldwide bestseller that also tells the true story of the Holocaust, often in the words of the men who helped plan and conduct it. It is a classic by any measure.The book has been translated into twelve languages and was adapted as a television miniseries, broadcast by ABC in 1968. This first ever e-book edition is published on the 50th anniversary of this iconic work.

Ever since the Second World War and the Holocaust, historians, psychologists and theologians alike have attempted to explain how a single personality could bring about some of the greatest horrors of the modern era. Ron Rosenbaums Explaining Hitler investigates the meanings and motivations people have attached to Hitler and his disturbing policies - and whether or not he believed his own doctrines - and explores the continuing fascination with the nature of evil. The book also documents the story of the earliest critic of Hitler, the Munich Post in the 1920s and 1930s, and its violent demise.First published in 1998, and using interviews of leading experts such as Hugh Trevor-Roper, Alan Bullock and Daniel Goldhagen, and discussing the work of many more, Exploring Hitler is a balanced overview of a dark subject.

Este libro es una extraordinaria expedición a la zona de guerra de las teorías acerca del dictador alemán. Rosenbaum estudió una extensa gama de teorías sobre Hitler, desde lo profundo a lo herético; desde lo psicosexual (¿hemos de creer el informe de la OSS segun el cual Hitler practico una extravagante perversion sexual con su media sobrina Geli Raubal?) a lo genealogico (¿que decir de los rumores sobre un posible abuelo judio de Hitler?) y teologico, concluyendo con un examen desapasionado del conflicto entre el "Hitler reidor" de Lucy Dawidowicz y el "Hitler Hamlet" de Christopher Browning.

En Explicar a Hitler Rosenbaum se propone hacer visible la insondable figura del Fuhrer, descubrir las razones o, al menos, encontrar los indicios que revelen que pudo llevar a un individuo a decidir el exterminio del pueblo judio. En ese proceso de esclarecimiento el autor se entrevisto, entre otros, con los historiadores H. R. Trevor-Roper, Alan Bullock, Fritz Gerlich, David Irving y Yehuda Bauer, con el filosofo Emil Fackenheim, con el escritor George Steiner y el cineasta Claude Lanzmann.