World War II and the Apocalypse Aversion Project

Can the last great cataclysm help us avoid another one?

I recently finished listening to William Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, the most famous, and probably the most influential, English-language book about World War II and its origins.

I learned several things from it:

1) It’s a very long book (40 hours at 1.4X speed—pack a lunch!).

2) However bad you thought Hitler was, he was worse than th…