Berlin diary, the journal of a foreign correspondent 1934. Like all his books, william shirer s end of a berlin diary is well written, informative and extremely insightful. Shirers honest, lucid and passionate reporting of the brutality with which hitler came to power. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take.
Exciting reading unpalatable for those who would quickly forget the war and what it was fought for. What i learned losing a million dollars by jim paul 4. Shirer was virtually unknown in 1940 when he decided there might be a book in the diary he had kept in europe during the 1930sspecifically those sections. Having established his reputation as one of americas leading experts on hitler and nazi germany on the eve of and during he opening stages of world war ii, william shirer returned to germany and berlin following the war to report on the nuremberg trials. Shirer and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Inasmuch as he was a journalist, shirer was a trained observer, constantly. The book he eventually wrote, the rise and fall of the third reich, is an excellent general history of nazi germany. A first edition copy of berlin diary by american journalist william l.
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