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Babak asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 9 years ago

A good introductory book on World War II?

I don't want memoirs or books about the closing parts of the war. I was looking for a general book that chronicles the war from the beginning.

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    "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William Shirer.

    Starts with Hitlers childhood through his rise to power and behind the scenes of the

    politics and intrigue leading up toWW2 and coverage of the war itself and through

    to the war crime trials after the war. When you're through, you'll have a very good

    overview of The Third Reich and Holocaust from the bottom up.

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