Description
The first edition, first printing of The Collapse Of The Third Republic, signed by William L. Shirer.
Thick octavo, 1082pp, [2]. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine over red printed label. Stated “first printing” on copyright page. Top edge red. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $12.50 on the front flap, a near fine example.
Signed by the author on the half title, with laid-in “First Edition Circle” bookmark from Kroch’s & Brentano’s of Chicago.
The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940 examines the political, social, and military weaknesses of France’s Third Republic, tracing its instability from its founding after the Franco-Prussian War through the interwar years and culminating in the swift defeat by Nazi Germany in World War II.
