The Collapse of the Third Republic By William L. Shirer
Simon & Shuster, 1082 pp., $12.50 Any patient and industrious plodder can gather together a vast mass of research material—“mountainous” is the adjective which the author uses to describe this phase of his labors—but only a gifted historian, with an instinct for pertinence amounting to genius, can sort out from this abundance the material essential to his theme and produce a narrative lacking neither in dramatic quality nor instructive value.
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