It lasted only 12. But those 12 years contained some of the most catastrophic events Western civilization has ever known.No other powerful empire ever bequeathed such mountains of evidence about its birth and destruction as the Third Reich. When the bitter war was over, and before the Nazis could destroy their files, the Allied demand for unconditional surrender produced an almost hour-by-hour record of the nightmare empire built by Adolph Hitler. This record included the testimony of Nazi leaders and of concentration camp inmates, the diaries of officials, transcripts of secret conferences, army orders, private letters—all the vast paperwork behind Hitler's drive to conquer the world.The famed foreign correspondent and historian William L. Shirer, who had watched and reported on the Nazis since 1925, spent five and a half years sifting through this massive documentation. The result is a monumental study that has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of one of the most frightening chapters in the history of mankind.This worldwide bestseller has been acclaimed as the definitive book on Nazi Germany; it is a classic work.The accounts of how the United States got involved and how Hitler used Mussolini and Japan are astonishing, and the coverage of the war-from Germany's early successes to her eventual defeat-is must reading

    It concludes with a lengthy interview with Diop.

    Capturing in breathtaking prose the larger-than-life personalities of such notable figures as Stanley, Livingstone, Burton and many others, The White Nile remains a seminal work in tales of discovery and escapade, filled with incredible historical detail and compelling stories of heroism and drama.

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    The author reviews history from Sumerian days to the present time to show that throughout its course, East and West have alternately been dominant, the periodic decline of one civilization creating a cultural vacuum that was filled by the adjacent rising culture.

    In words and pictures, here is an exciting panorama of man's daily life across the ages, showing the evolution of his ways and habits of living from prehistoric times to the present.

    John Rigby HaleAge of Faith. Anne Fremantle Age of Kings. Charles Blitzer Age of Progress. Samuel O. Buchill Ancient America. Jonathan N. Leonard Ancient China. Edward Schafer Ancient Egypt. Lionel Casson Barbarian Europe. Gerald Simons Byzantium. Phillip Sherrard Classical Greece. C.M. Bowra Cradle of Civilization. Samuel Noah Early Islam. Desmond Stewart Early Japan. Jonathan N. Leonard Historic India. Lucille Schulberg Imperial Rome. Moses Hadas Rise of Russia. Robert Wallace The Reformation. Edith Simon The Renaissance. John Rigby Hale Twentieth Century. Joel G. Colton

    John Birch has been called the first casualty of World War III. "With his death and in his death the battle lines were drawn, in a struggle from which either communism or Christian-style civilization must emerge with one completely triumphant, the other completely destroyed."