New Releases by William L. Shirer

Testemunha ocular da história, Shirer já observava Hitler em 1933. Como correspondente em Berlim, acompanhou as tropas alemãs que avançaram sobre a França. e só deixou a Alemanha em 1940. Um livro que logo se tornou uma obra canônica sobre o Terceiro Reich, um relato minucioso sobre os delírios de grandeza que o engendraram e sobre a devastação que ele ocasionou e sofreu.

Love and Hatred is a groundbreaking, brilliant, and touching work that explores the marriage of Leo Tolstoy, an extraordinary Russian writer, and his wife, Sonya. Bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L Shirer, portrait of a long and stormy marriage that serves as a biography and historical recount of the lives of both Tolstoys.

As European correspondent for a number of American newspapers during the 1930s, William L. Shirer witnessed at first hand many of the pivotal events in the buildup to World War II. At the Nuremberg rallies, when Hitler roared through the streets celebrating his newly-won domination of Germany, Shirer was there. In Munich, as Chamberlain abandoned the Czechs, Shirer was there. In Vienna during the night of the Anschluss, in Berlin, when Hitler loosed his Blitzkrieg on Poland and began the war, Shirer was there. Through articles, broadcasts and translations of Hitler''s speeches, Shirer tirelessly tried to warn the world of the terrible evil that was growing in Germany. The Nightmare Years, a No. I bestseller when first published in America in 1984, is not only the fascinating eyewitness account of this cataclysmic decade, but also the more personal story of a young American caught in tense and desperate times, struggling to survive and provide a life for himself and his family as the world lurched inexorably towards war. ''More than any conventional history book, Shirer''s memoirs let a reader relive history'' -People ''A superb journalist. ..Shirer was close enough to Hitler to feel the Nazi leader''s messianic personal force. ..An unusually fine book'' -Time ''No one ever did more to explain the rise of the Nazis'' -Barbara Tuchman ''An outstanding achievement of journalistic history; indeed it is the best kind of accurate and absorbing history'' -Washington Post

The author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich chronicles his life from the years 1904 to 1930, describing the people and places he encountered.

Den britiske flåde sænker i maj 1941 det tyske slagskib Bismarck efter en hidsig jagt i hele Nordatlanten. Også for unge

The classic history of Adolph Hitler''s rise to power and his dramatic defeat.

In 1938 the European correspondent for CBS was in Austria when the Nazis marched in. He wanted to tell the world about it - but first he had to help invent a whole new kind of broadcasting.