/lit/ - Literature

>>16244623
>Is Shirer supposed to be unreliable?

He routinely cycles between suggesting that Hitler is some Teutonic terror or a Vienna gutter tramp. He pushed the Niemoller Buergerbraukellar angle, among other things, and there's an anon here who routinely points out that the post-Barbarossa stuff is the "Keitel narrative". There's other stuff, you know, about the Kiev massacre (Graebe), the so-called gas vans, and a bunch of other shit.

I don't think Shirer intentionally pushed the stinky Hitler narrative, but he wrote it in '57 or '58, right? It was seminal and he got a lot of things wrong.

Good book to have on your bookshelf, good read, but a lot of real WTFers in there.

I want to reread it to brush up on some specific events, dates, and names, but how does one go about re-reading such a massive tome? It's so laden with detail that a read through is exhausting. What is the motivation?

/Nonfiction/ brothers, what are you reading?