The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Author:Willam Schirer Before the Nazies could destroy the files, famed foreign correspondent and historian William L. Shirer sifted through the massive self-documentation of the Third Reich, to create a monumental study that has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of one of the most frightening chapters in the history of mankind. — "One of the most importan... more »t works of history of our time."