Third Reich Biographies

Three Men. Fifty Years of Buried Archives. One Authorial Through-Line.

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 from private and archival collections. 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, 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 narrative follows events through Hitler’s headquarters and wartime records, including the July 20th assassination plot and its aftermath.

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 included in this edition.

Irving later described fierce publishing and public controversy around the Goebbels diaries and the book’s later editions.

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

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📗 Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich

Reviewing Goebbels in The Daily Telegraph on 20 April 1996, Sir John Keegan wrote that Irving "knows more than anyone alive about the German side of the Second World War."

Source: John Keegan, The Daily Telegraph, 20 April 1996, reviewing Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich. Read the Focal Point Publications archive extract. The linked text is an abridged extract of the 1996 review, not the full newspaper article or a review of this current edition.

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

Irving was among the researchers to 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 a large-scale biography of Adolf Hitler’s propaganda chief.

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 this edition.

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 extensive industry and success." — A.J.P. Taylor, The Observer

"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.

Irving presents Heinrich Himmler as a more complex figure than the standard bureaucratic portrait. 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 argues from British military records for an alternative account of Himmler’s death. This argument 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 collected hardbacks — over 2,300 combined pages of primary-source history
• 🔍 Source documents — diaries, letters, intercepts and private and archival sources
• 📸 Hundreds of original photographs — many drawn from private or archival collections
• 💰 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

"These books present Irving’s inside-focused account of Third Reich leadership."

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This is archive-led history presented in collected form.