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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Bacon, Paul (jacket design); Cummings, Dede (book design) Ilustrador. Very good condition red boards/black cloth spine/gold front cover and spine lettering contained in a very good condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by William L. Shirer; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quotes; Introduction; Epilogue; and Index. Illustrated with sections of black-and-white photographs and black-and-white photographic front and rear endpapers. Former owner name neatly scripted on inner front board. "Like Aeneas, John Reed -- and Winston Churchill -- William Shirer bore witness to enormous events. This gives his account of Hitler's Germany an extraordinary intimacy and imminence coupled with a rage at those who would blur the jagged contours of the Third Reich. He has not forgotten nor forgiven the Nazi Schweinhunde. Neither will readers of this great testament to evil." - William Manchester. "Publication of Bill Shirer's second volume is a great event for all readers of modern history. No one ever did more to explain to the public the rise of the Nazis." - Barbara Tuchman. "Rarely have I felt so directly and dramatically in touch with the intimate events of world history. A vivid, human document." - James MacGregor Burns. "Shirer gives to past events an immediacy that brings history to vibrant life. wisely said that those who have not understood history are condemned to re-live it. In these stirring chapters Shirer contributes superbly to that crucial understanding." Kay Boyle. "At the Nuremberg rallies, when Hitler roared through the streets celebrating his newly won domination of Germany, William 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 -- thus beginning World War II -- William Shirer was there. If ever a journalist was in the right place at the right time, it was William Shirer. Initially as a newspaperman and then as one of the first overseas radio correspondents, Shirer was everywhere it mattered in the 1930s and 1940s. In this, the second volume of his memoirs, the prize-winning author provides an eyewitness and intensely personal vision of the crucible out of which the Nazi monster appeared. Fluent in German, married to a Viennese, Shirer had an uncanny sense of the shaping of events and sources that enabled him to act on his intuition. He met, knew, talked to -- and occasionally drank with -- Goring, Goebbels, Himmler, Hess, Heydrich, Ribbentrop, Eichmann and dozens of High Command staff officers. Even Hitler he observed at first hand, close enough, he noted, "to kill him." Through articles, simultaneous translations of Hitler's speeches, and his own broadcasts Shirer desperately tried to warn the Western World of this demonic scourge. To his intense frustration, while he was read and listened to, the urgency of his message was not believed. The Nightmare Years is not only a riveting, firsthand account of the events and men who set the world on fire, it is also the human story of a young American caught in these titanic events, struggling to survive and provide a normal life for himself, his wife and infant daughter. Reading this life is -- as living it must have been -- fascinating, powerful, and terrifying. Shirer's tale of these harrowing and historic times is enhanced by ninety-two photographs he took or collected throughout the period. Some of them have never appeared in print before outside Nazi Germany. Some have historic interest; others are a reflection of a young man and his family, trying to live normal lives in an abnormal time. They reinforce the warm, human voice telling a devastatingly inhuman story. Newspaperman, pioneer broadcaster (together with Edward R. Murrow, he invented worldwide, electronic journalism) and best-selling author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William Shirer now lives in Lenox, Massachusetts." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition ; xvii, 654 pp. ; illustrated ; red and black cloth in color dustjacket ; Contents: The Road to Berlin -- Home to Vienna from India -- An Interlude in Kabul -- A Stopover in Ur -- Married, Fired, Vienna -- The Year Off in Spain -- Return to Paris -- Life & WOrk in the Third Reich -- Hitler and the Third Reich -- The Men Around Hitler -- The Road to Armageddon -- The First Stretch -- Time Off to Live -- Return to Vienna, Anschluss -- The End of Austria, A Breakthrough in Broadcasting the News -- Munich -- The Last Months of Peace -- War! The Conquest of Poland -- Sitzkrieg in the West, the Overrunning of Denmark and Norway -- Conquest of the West -- Sea Lion and the Battle of Britain -- The End of the Third Reich -- Judgment at Nuremburg ; colored pencil mark on front endpaper ; wear to dustjacket ; G/G. Book.

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Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 166 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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