Well, this took two months to post!  After missing the Spring 2011 semester I'm back at Temple University crawling my way towards a bachelors degree in history with two evening courses, "World War II" and "Jewish Diaspora ( Read more... )

It has been almost two months since I picked it up, but I finally finished William L Shirer's massive "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" earlier this evening after coming home from work. Two weeks ago I posted my initial impressions, and now that I am finished they are even stronger. Most of the histories that I have read were written long ( Read more... )

One of the consequences of using Goodreads to catalog my library has been rediscovery of old books. The very first adult history book I ever read was "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William L Shirer.  I found an old hardback copy sometime in the mid 1970s when I was in my mid-teens and couldn't put it down, and somehow finished the 1200 ( Read more... )