第三帝国的兴亡（共三册）《我读过的最好的一本纪实史书》

No other powerful empire ever bequeathed such moutains of evidence about its birth and destruction as the Third Reich. When the bitter war was over and before the Nazis could destroy their files the Allied demand for unconditional surrender produced and almost hour-by-hour record of the nightmare empire built by Adolph Hitler. This record included the testimony of Nazi leaders and of concentration camp inmates the diaries of officials transcripts of secret conferences army orders private letters-all the vast paperwork behind Hitler's drive to conquer the world.

The famed foreign correspondent and historian William L. Shirer who had watched and reported on the Nazis since 1925 spent five and a half years sifting through this massive documentation. The result is a monumental study that has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of one of the most frightening chapters in the history of mankind.

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