The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by , is the first definitive history of in . Shirer, an reporter for who also worked for a number of newspapers and , covered for many years, until December 1940, when increasing censorship of his broadcasts made his work impossible. This 1,245-page book, first published, in 1960, by , and still in print, colors its historically accurate information with denunciation of Nazism and tyranny. The book was into a for the network in 1966. It was one of the first programs to be marketed as a .