Third Reich Biographies

Three Men. Fifty Years of Buried Archives. One Author Who Went All the Way.

The story of these Third Reich Biographies begins in the spring of 1977, when the publishing worlds of London and New York were startled by the appearance of David Irving's Hitler's War. Unique among historical biographies, Third Reich Biographies reconstruct World War Two from the inside — drawn entirely from private diaries, classified military transcripts, and documents no other historian had troubled to find. The first edition of Hitler's War sold thirty thousand copies in hardback in the UK alone, became a recommended reference work at West Point, Sandhurst, and military academies across the former Empire, and was translated and reprinted around the world.

The two biographies that followed — Goebbels and True Himmler — were built on the same foundation: decades of original archival research, exclusive access to private papers, and an uncompromising commitment to the primary source over received wisdom.

What you are holding in this trilogy is the culmination of everything that followed.

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📘 Hitler's War — Millennium Edition (2025)

Over 1,000 pages. Illustrated with rare colour photographs.

The reader experiences events in the precise sequence Hitler himself encountered them. The first hint of the July 20th assassination plot arrives — as it did for Hitler — when Stauffenberg's bomb detonates beneath the table. Nothing is foreshadowed. Nothing is editorialised. The documents tell the story.

The Millennium Edition incorporates fifty years of compounding archival discovery: the diaries of Hermann Göring and Hitler's personal physician Dr. Morell; long-suppressed Gestapo interrogation records of Rudolf Hess's staff; SS documents intercepted by British codebreakers; and dramatic colour photographs taken by Hitler's own film cameraman Walter Frentz — images that had never appeared in any history book before Irving found them.

When Irving returned from Moscow in 1992 carrying the unpublished Goebbels diaries from former KGB archives, his mainstream publisher Macmillan responded by secretly ordering all remaining copies of his books burned. Bookstore windows were smashed. Public libraries were pressured to pull his works from their shelves. European publishers who held translation rights were prevailed upon never to release them.

Hitler's War survived all of it. This edition is the result.

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📗 Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich

"A Rolls-Royce of a book." — Tina Rosenberg, New York Times

Out of print for years. Now reprinted in superior quality with new black-and-white and colour photographs.

Irving was the first historian in the world to open and work through the 80,000 pages of the Goebbels diaries — microfiches that had sat boxed and unrecognised for fifty years in the Red Army's Trophy Archives in Moscow. To this extraordinary trove he added six years of research across the archives of the Western world, producing the first complete biography of Adolf Hitler's propaganda chief ever written.

The narrative follows Goebbels from his impoverished student years at Heidelberg, through his seizure of Berlin for the Nazi movement, his catastrophic affair with a Czech actress that brought him to the brink of suicide, his orchestration of Kristallnacht, and finally his decision in the bunker in May 1945 to take his wife and six children with him into death — a decision now documented in full from the Soviet archives for the first time.

Here, recorded in Goebbels' own secret writings, are his private accounts of the Reichstag Fire, the Night of the Long Knives, the invasion of Prague, Pearl Harbor, and dozens of other turning points in modern history that official histories have reconstructed only from the outside.

"David Irving is a patient researcher of unrivalled industry and success." — A.J.P. Taylor, The Observer

"Irving's research effort is awesome." — Professor Larry Thompson, Chicago Tribune

"A remarkable researcher, a brilliant discoverer of documents, and a skillful writer." — Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Telegraph

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📕 True Himmler

Over 700 pages. Hundreds of original photographs from Himmler's personal albums.

Twenty years in the making.

Heinrich Himmler has been the most misrepresented figure of the entire Nazi era — reduced by popular history to a colourless bureaucrat of atrocity. Irving spent two decades retrieving the private letters, diaries, and classified documents that disappeared into hostile hands at the war's end, tracking them across American private collections, Israeli archives, and KGB files in Moscow.

What emerges is something far more unsettling than the cartoon villain. Himmler was the educated son of a Classics teacher, a man of extraordinary organisational genius who built an army within an army — and who, in the final weeks of the war, made secret contact with Western Allied commanders in a desperate attempt to redirect SS forces against the Soviet advance.

It didn't save him. On May 23, 1945, in Lüneburg, Himmler died. The official verdict was suicide. Irving's forensic examination of the British military records tells a different story — one in which a covert British killing unit terminated Himmler and disguised the death. The evidence, drawn from secret British intercepts and Reinhard Heydrich's own papers, opens the first chapter.

The book is illustrated throughout with hundreds of photographs selected from Himmler's personal albums, now held at the Hoover Library at Stanford and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.

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Why This Bundle?

These three books share more than a subject. They share a method: the relentless pursuit of the actual document, the real diary entry, the classified memo — over mainstream secondary sources, over academic consensus, over convenience.

• 📚 3 exclusive hardbacks — over 2,300 combined pages of primary-source history
• 🔍 Exclusive documents — diaries, letters, intercepts and archives unavailable to any other historian
• 📸 Hundreds of original photographs — many never previously published
• 💰 Priced below Amazon and eBay
• ✍️ Signed copies available — contact us before ordering
• 📁 Explore the original memos and source documents behind these works at the Irving Collection

"Anyone who wants to understand how the Third Reich actually functioned from the inside has no serious alternative to these books."

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This is not library history. This is the history archive itself.