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A radio broadcaster and journalist for Edward R. Murrow at CBS, William Shirer was new to the world of broadcast journalism when he began keeping a diary while on assignment in Europe during the 1930s. It was in 1940, when he was still a virtual unknown, that Shirer wondered whether his eyewitness account of the collapse of the world around Nazi Germany could be of any interest or value as a book. Shirer's Berlin Diary, which is considered the first full record of what was happening in show more Germany during the rise of the Third Reich, appeared in 1941. The book was an instant success-and would not be the last of his expert observations on Europe. Shirer returned to the European front in 1944 to cover the end of the war. As the smoke cleared, Shirer-who watched the birth of a monster that threatened to engulf the world-now stood witness to the death of the Third Reich. End of a Berlin Diary chronicles this year-long study of Germany after Hitler. Through a combination of Shirer's lucid, honest reporting, along with passages on the Nuremberg trials, copies of captured Nazi documents, and an eyewitness account of Hitler's last days, Shirer provides insight into the unrest, the weariness, and the tentative steps world leaders took towards peace. show lessTags
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This was not quite as good as the Berlin Diary as Shirer extensively quoted from Nazi war documents in this diary, which got tedious. He didn't have those captured war documents when he wrote his first diary so the reader got a more complete first had account of the rise of the Nazi's and the beginning of the war. I think Shirer found in so incredible that he Nazi's would write everything down that he couldn't help himself in repeating their accounts. I still found the diary interesting though. It really helps you realize how fearful Americans were of nuclear disaster after we dropped atomic bombs on Japan. It hints at the beginning of the Cold War. It also felt like history is repeating itself again with what is going on in the world show more today. show less
Relata los acontecimientos y perspectiva de un periodista norteamericano expulsado de la Alemania nazi que vuelve luego de terminada la guerra para cubrir el juicio de Nuremberg.
Acabo de terminarlo por segunda vez y me pareció mucho mejor que la primera. Lo releí luego de terminar el monumental Russia at war de Alexander Werth. Werth, Grossman y Shirer estuvieron alli. Luego de leer varios libros de la segunda guerra, es impresionante el impacto que tuvieron estos tres periodistas en los textos que relatan este período. Y no hay nada mejor que escuchar de sus propias voces el relato. Shirer terminó apestado, como cabe esperarse, de los años que vivió en Berlin. Vió a los nazis subir hasta que fue expulsado de Alemania y luego show more volvió al finalizar la guerra para ver a estos superhombres sentados en un tribunal, donde le parecieron mucho menos notables, casi como oficinistas, que llevaron al mundo al peor conflicto que nunca se haya visto. show less
Acabo de terminarlo por segunda vez y me pareció mucho mejor que la primera. Lo releí luego de terminar el monumental Russia at war de Alexander Werth. Werth, Grossman y Shirer estuvieron alli. Luego de leer varios libros de la segunda guerra, es impresionante el impacto que tuvieron estos tres periodistas en los textos que relatan este período. Y no hay nada mejor que escuchar de sus propias voces el relato. Shirer terminó apestado, como cabe esperarse, de los años que vivió en Berlin. Vió a los nazis subir hasta que fue expulsado de Alemania y luego show more volvió al finalizar la guerra para ver a estos superhombres sentados en un tribunal, donde le parecieron mucho menos notables, casi como oficinistas, que llevaron al mundo al peor conflicto que nunca se haya visto. show less
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William Lawrence Shirer (February 23, 1904 - December 28, 1993) was an American journalist, war correspondent, and historian, who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, a history of Nazi Germany that has been read by many and cited in scholarly works for more than 50 years. Shirer was born in Chicago and graduated from Coe. Originally a show more foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and the International News Service, Shirer was the first reporter hired by Edward R. Murrow for what would become a CBS radio team of journalists, and he became known for his broadcasts from Berlin, from the rise of the Nazi dictatorship through the first year of World War II (1940). With Murrow, he organized the first broadcast world news roundup, a format still followed by news broadcasts. Shirer wrote more than a dozen books including Berlin Diary (published in 1941); The Collapse of the Third Republic (1969) and a three-volume autobiography, Twentieth Century Journey (1976 to 1990). Shirer received a 1946 Peabody Award for Outstanding Reporting and Interpretation of News for his work at CBS. His book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, won the 1961 National Book Award for Nonfiction and Carey-Thomas Award for non-fiction. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- End of a Berlin diary
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- End of a Berlin Diary
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- 1947
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- Berlin, Germany
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- World War II
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- See separate LT work pages for Berlin Diary (1941) and End of a Berlin Diary (1947). Please do not combine the separate works; thank you.
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- 940.548173 — History & geography History of Europe History of Europe 1918- Military history of World War II Other Topics Memories and autobiographies
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- D811.5 .S528 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania History (General) World War II (1939-1945)
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