Sitemap - 2025 - Historians and Journalists: Shirer Reading Group
George Steiner on Riefenstahl and the allure of fascism
Chapter 22: Operation Sea Lion: The Thwarted Invasion of Britain
Chapter 21: Victory in the West
Rote and Demoralizing: Reading about Early WWII
Chapter 20: The Conquest of Denmark and Norway
Chapter 19: Sitzkrieg in the West
Chapter 18: The Fall of Poland
Podcast ep. 5: What American Reporters Saw That Others Didn't (Audio Only)
Chapter 17: The Launching of World War II
Chapter 16: The Last Days of Peace
Podcast ep. 4: The Exhilaration and Peril of Covering the Nazis (Audio Only)
Podcast ep. 5: What American Reporters Saw That Others Didn't
Chapter 14: The Turn of Poland
Podcast ep. 4: The Exhilaration and Peril of Covering the Nazis
Chapter 13: Czechoslovakia Ceases to Exist
Chapter 12: The Road to Munich
Chapter 11: Anschluss: The Rape of Austria
Who was William L. Shirer? part 2: The Nightmare Years 1934-1940
Rise and Fall Ch. 10: Hitler Purges Generals and Diplomats
Rise and Fall Ch. 9: The First Steps: 1934-37
Rise and Fall Ch. 8: Life in the Third Reich: 1933-37
Rise and Fall Ch. 7: The Nazification of Germany: 1933-34
If You've Fallen Behind on the Reading, This Post is for You
Interview with a 20th Century War Correspondent Jonathan Randal
Rise and Fall Ch. 6: The Last Days of the Republic, 1931-33
Rise and Fall Ch. 5: The Road to Power: 1925-31
Why are Dictators (and Techno-monarchs) Appealing?
The Problems with the German Character Explanation of the Nazis
Rise and Fall Ch. 4: The Mind of Hitler and the Roots of the Third Reich
Rise and Fall Ch. 3: Versailles, Weimar and the Beer Hall Putsch
A Historian's Take on a Journalist's History
Fun Archival Finds: The William L. Shirer Papers
Rise and Fall Ch. 2: Birth of the Nazi Party
The Man, The Myth: Hitler in American Culture
Rise and Fall Ch. 1: Birth of the Third Reich
And we're off!! — Rise and Fall of 3rd Reich Reading Group
Who was William L. Shirer? — part 1