This book was a Christmas present from a friend, though I also bought a copy on the Kindle so that I could read it outside of my house without having to lug around a brick-like book with swastikas on it. The Kindle version is especially handy if you are not quite at the bring-Nazi-related-stuff-t...
This large volume is the day to day account of William Shirer, an American news correspondent sent to Berlin Germany by the International News service to provide up to date news from a Europe that seemed headed for destruction. In this contemporaneous record, Shirer recorded the facts and his imp...
The Bismarck was the greatest warship ever built. But the Allies had to sink it - or risk losing the war. Shirer, famed WWII correspondent and author of 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich', captures every moment of the perilous mission. However, a mixture and luck and new technology turned the...
They called it the “Rhine Exercise,” after the river Rhine.The confidential German naval records, captured at the end of the war, reveal the Bismarck’s sailing orders. She was to destroy British merchant shipping in the Atlantic and to avoid, if possible, engagements with a strong enemy fleet. Bu...
At the station Chamberlain, looking more birdlike and vain than when I last saw him at Munich, walked, umbrella in hand, up and down the platform nodding to a motley crowd of British local residents whom Mussolini had slyly invited to greet him. Mussolini and Ciano, in black Fascist uniforms, sau...