I loved to read and already had an interest in history and World War II as I was growing up and going through highschool. I remember doing a bookreport as early as 4th grade on The Sinking of the Bismark. The school library had a large selection of the Time-Life WWII collectors book set. These sets, by design are not as in depth or detailed as more scholarly books, gave a great overview of the events of war and battles, high qualty photos and maps , and enough personal detail on individuals to really maintain your interest. As I have gotten older, I find I still enjoy them and have begun to search for them to add them to my personal collection. So, it was much to my suprise and delight a few weeks ago while I was Christmas shopping, that I saw an almost complete set (18 of the 21 volumes) of the Time-Life series The Third Reich. This is a more specialized series that followed the WWII books. The set was up high and had likely been overlooked by many people, because they had marked it down to only $45. I wasn't able to buy it that day, but went back soon after, and it now sits next to my 6 volume set by Winston Churchill. I just finished my third volume today, and will put a review up of each volume as I finish it.