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Originally Posted by issybird
William L. Shirer's The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940 is $2.99 at Amazon.
Once purchased, the WhisperSync price for 48 hours of audiobook is $7.47 (narrated by Grover Gardner). |
I read Shirer's
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, as a teenager. I "couldn't put it down"--I read the entire 1280 pages (as per RosettaBooks' modern reprint), using every spare moment that I had. I've found few, if any, books that engrossing.
It's hard to see how this present book, dedicated to just one particular stage (and country) in World War II, could keep my attention as much as Shirer's book covering (almost?) the entire history of the War in the Western hemisphere. However, Shirer finds lots to say in this present tome--it is
1567 pages long (as per this RosettaBooks edition) and, as you mentioned, the audio is 48 hours long!
I've read some tidbits, even recently, that have impressed upon me the great significance of the collapse of the Third Republic of France in WWII. However, a high school history teacher did that first--one of the three (that I remember) turning points that he saw in the war against Germany and their allies was the halting of the German advance in North Africa at El Alamein, their defeat at Stalingrad (in the Soviet Union), and Britain's evacuation of some 600,000 (if memory serves me correctly) Allied soldiers from Dunkurque (Anglicized--"Dunkirk") on the French coast, to Britain--an almost unbelievable number of soldiers, who would live to fight another day.
Thank you for allowing me to give my plug for the book.