Kyle Harrison
to-read
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
- Author
- William L. Shirer
- Published
- 1960
- Pages
- 1,249
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Shirer covered Berlin as a correspondent through the 1930s and then wrote the regime’s history out of the captured German archives — the first comprehensive account, and still the one most people read.
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @typesfast — an answer to his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” in his thread, June 2025. The full list of answers is on What’s the best history book… (tweet).
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- World War II — the war the book covers.