Full name: Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941

Author: William L. Shirer Year: 1941 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, War/Military, Memoirs, Politics Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780801870569 9781441734136 0801870569 1441734139

By the acclaimed journalist and bestselling 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 now available in a new paperback edition. CBS radio broadcaster William L. 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. Berlin Diary first appeared in 1941, and the timing was perfect. The energy, the passion, the electricity in it were palpable. The book was an instant success, and it became the frame of reference against which thoughtful Americans judged the rush of events in Europe. It exactly matched journalist to event: the right reporter at the right place at the right time. It stood, and still stands, as so few books have ever done--a pure act of journalistic witness. Similar books: The Berlin Diaries by Marie Wassiltschikow Spandau by Albert Speer The End by Ian Kershaw Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer The German War by Nicholas Stargardt The Third Reich at War by Richard J. Evans The Perfect Nazi by Martin Davidson Hitlerland by Andrew Nagorski The Collapse of the Third Republic by William L. Shirer The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer Interrogations by Richard Overy Hitler's holy relics by Sidney Kirkpatrick Inside Hitler's Bunker by Joachim Fest Killing Hitler by Roger Moorhouse The Last Days of Hitler by H. R. Trevor-Roper The Devil's Diary by Robert K. Wittman Against All Enemies by Richard A. Clarke The Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg To End a War by Richard Holbrooke We Meant Well by Peter Van Buren