Tim Smith
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Have people here who've read Shirer's book, also read John Toland's book, "Adolf Hitler" ? Personally i find Toland's 900 page history, with another 100 pages of footnotes, references, etc, to be much better, well-detailed, plus well-documented, and very objective without unnecessarily inter-jecting his own opinions and/or biases.
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I agree with you. Toland demonstrates it is possible to write about historical people and events without interjecting loaded judgments about them. The appellation "evil" attached to Hitler by virtually everyone who writes about him and the Third Reich contributes nothing to the illumination and clarification of what happened. And to say these judgments can't be avoided is simply evidence that much of what's written is nothing more than propaganda.
Scott Wilson
I agree that Toland's book is better but I do think this book is a very good. I happen to think Toland's Rising Sun and biography of Hitler are two of the best nonfiction books ever written.
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