Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934–1941
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (892 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0058FR97E |
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| Number of Pages | : | 257 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Brilliantly Written and Important FeetMustFollow A wealth of information from a talented writer. From the Nuremberg rallies to the Nazi invasions of Czechoslovakia and Poland and France to midnight bombings in Berlin to the slowly unfolding story of the murder of the disabled, with brief respites with his wife and daughter (born in the madness in Vienna), Shirer battles censors and shrapnel, dicey flights and rationing, blacked-out streets and bomb craters, all to get the story of Nazi Germany back to the U.S. All of it ends with Shirer onboard a ship, watching Europe fade away: "For a time I stood against the rail watching . "A Must Read Book about World War II - A Riveting First Hand Account from a Brilliant Journalist" according to Terry W. Sullivan. I have ready many books about World War II over the past 50 years, and this is one of the best. You will find nothing like it - unless it is another book written by William L. Shirer. He was on the scene in pre-war Germany and highly talented in his powers of observation and skills as a journalist. It is amazing that in our age of cable and internet news, there is nothing like Mr. Shirer's reporting found today. This book takes you first hand into what was going on in Germany in the years that led up to World War II. You feel like your were there. In reading this diary we can . "First-person historical masterpiece" according to R. Morton. So there's a lot you could say about this. Intelligent and observant, Shirer happens to be in the heart of the hell that was Germany in the late 19First-person historical masterpiece So there's a lot you could say about this. Intelligent and observant, Shirer happens to be in the heart of the hell that was Germany in the late 1930's. This book in fact covers 193First-person historical masterpiece R. Morton So there's a lot you could say about this. Intelligent and observant, Shirer happens to be in the heart of the hell that was Germany in the late 1930's. This book in fact covers 1934 through late 1940, matching the heaviest focus of Rise and Fall. Downsides? Shirer is a tad self-occupied, which can be amusing and informative at times and slightly annoying at others, not to Hemingway levels but it's there. This is copyright 1941, and there's rumblings that some of his earlier raves about Nazi Germany got left behind. I don't know if that's true but I could barely believe this w. through late 19First-person historical masterpiece R. Morton So there's a lot you could say about this. Intelligent and observant, Shirer happens to be in the heart of the hell that was Germany in the late 1930's. This book in fact covers 1934 through late 1940, matching the heaviest focus of Rise and Fall. Downsides? Shirer is a tad self-occupied, which can be amusing and informative at times and slightly annoying at others, not to Hemingway levels but it's there. This is copyright 1941, and there's rumblings that some of his earlier raves about Nazi Germany got left behind. I don't know if that's true but I could barely believe this w. 0, matching the heaviest focus of Rise and Fall. Downsides? Shirer is a tad self-occupied, which can be amusing and informative at times and slightly annoying at others, not to Hemingway levels but it's there. This is copyright 19First-person historical masterpiece R. Morton So there's a lot you could say about this. Intelligent and observant, Shirer happens to be in the heart of the hell that was Germany in the late 1930's. This book in fact covers 1934 through late 1940, matching the heaviest focus of Rise and Fall. Downsides? Shirer is a tad self-occupied, which can be amusing and informative at times and slightly annoying at others, not to Hemingway levels but it's there. This is copyright 1941, and there's rumblings that some of his earlier raves about Nazi Germany got left behind. I don't know if that's true but I could barely believe this w. 1, and there's rumblings that some of his earlier raves about Nazi Germany got left behind. I don't know if that's true but I could barely believe this w. 0's. This book in fact covers 19First-person historical masterpiece So there's a lot you could say about this. Intelligent and observant, Shirer happens to be in the heart of the hell that was Germany in the late 1930's. This book in fact covers 193First-person historical masterpiece R. Morton So there's a lot you could say about this. Intelligent and observant, Shirer happens to be in the heart of the hell that was Germany in the late 1930's. This book in fact covers 1934 through late 1940, matching the heaviest focus of Rise and Fall. Downsides? Shirer is a tad self-occupied, which can be amusing and informative at times and slightly annoying at others, not to Hemingway levels but it's there. This is copyright 1941, and there's rumblings that some of his earlier raves about Nazi Germany got left behind. I don't know if that's true but I could barely believe this w. through late 19First-person historical masterpiece R. Morton So there's a lot you could say about this. Intelligent and observant, Shirer happens to be in the heart of the hell that was Germany in the late 1930's. This book in fact covers 1934 through late 1940, matching the heaviest focus of Rise and Fall. Downsides? Shirer is a tad self-occupied, which can be amusing and informative at times and slightly annoying at others, not to Hemingway levels but it's there. This is copyright 1941, and there's rumblings that some of his earlier raves about Nazi Germany got left behind. I don't know if that's true but I could barely believe this w. 0, matching the heaviest focus of Rise and Fall. Downsides? Shirer is a tad self-occupied, which can be amusing and informative at times and slightly annoying at others, not to Hemingway levels but it's there. This is copyright 19First-person historical masterpiece R. Morton So there's a lot you could say about this. Intelligent and observant, Shirer happens to be in the heart of the hell that was Germany in the late 1930's. This book in fact covers 1934 through late 1940, matching the heaviest focus of Rise and Fall. Downsides? Shirer is a tad self-occupied, which can be amusing and informative at times and slightly annoying at others, not to Hemingway levels but it's there. This is copyright 1941, and there's rumblings that some of his earlier raves about Nazi Germany got left behind. I don't know if that's true but I could barely believe this w. 1, and there's rumblings that some of his earlier raves about Nazi Germany got left behind. I don't know if that's true but I could barely believe this w. First-person historical masterpiece R. Morton So there's a lot you could say about this. Intelligent and observant, Shirer happens to be in the heart of the hell that was Germany in the late 1930's. This book in fact covers 1934 through late 1940, matching the heaviest focus of Rise and Fall. Downsides? Shirer is a tad self-occupied, which can be amusing and informative at times and slightly annoying at others, not to Hemingway levels but it's there. This is copyright 1941, and there's rumblings that some of his earlier raves about Nazi Germany got left behind. I don't know if that's true but I could barely believe this w. through late 19First-person historical masterpiece R. Morton So there's a lot you could say about this. Intelligent and observant, Shirer happens to be in the heart of the hell that was Germany in the late 1930's. This book in fact covers 1934 through late 1940, matching the heaviest focus of Rise and Fall. Downsides? Shirer is a tad self-occupied, which can be amusing and informative at times and slightly annoying at others, not to Hemingway levels but it's there. This is copyright 1941, and there's rumblings that some of his earlier raves about Nazi Germany got left behind. I don't know if that's true but I could barely believe this w. 0, matching the heaviest focus of Rise and Fall. Downsides? Shirer is a tad self-occupied, which can be amusing and informative at times and slightly annoying at others, not to Hemingway levels but it's there. This is copyright 19First-person historical masterpiece R. Morton So there's a lot you could say about this. Intelligent and observant, Shirer happens to be in the heart of the hell that was Germany in the late 1930's. This book in fact covers 1934 through late 1940, matching the heaviest focus of Rise and Fall. Downsides? Shirer is a tad self-occupied, which can be amusing and informative at times and slightly annoying at others, not to Hemingway levels but it's there. This is copyright 1941, and there's rumblings that some of his earlier raves about Nazi Germany got left behind. I don't know if that's true but I could barely believe this w. 1, and there's rumblings that some of his earlier raves about Nazi Germany got left behind. I don't know if that's true but I could barely believe this w
The book was an instant success, and it became the frame of reference against which thoughtful Americans judged the rush of events in Europe. Fortunately, Shirer escaped and was able to take most of his diary with him.Berlin Diary first appeared in 1941, and the timing was perfect. It exactly matched journalist to event: the right reporter in the right place at the right time. The energy, the passion, and the electricity in it were palpable. The whole time, Shirer kept a record of events, many of which could not be publicly reported because of censorship by the Germans. It stood, and still stands, as so few books have ever done, a pure act of journalistic witness.. By the acclaimed journalist and New York Times best-selling author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, this day-by-day eyewitness account of the momentous events leading up to World War II in Europe is the private, personal, utterly revealing journal of a great foreign correspondent.CBS radio broadcaster William L. In December 1940, Shirer learned that the Germans were building a case against him for espionage, an offense punishable by death. Shirer was virtually unknown in 1940 when he decided there might be a book in the diary he had kept in Europe during the 1930s-specifically those sections dealing with the collapse of the European democracies and the rise of Nazi Germany.Shirer was the only Western correspondent in Vienna on March 11, 193