-Caveat Lector- Shirer, William L. (Lawrence) 1904 -- 1993 http://search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=19422 Journalist, author; born in Chicago. After working as a correspondent in Europe and (briefly) in India, he joined CBS in 1937 and broadcast on the momentous events in Europe from Vienna, London, Prague, and ultimately Berlin, alerting Americans to the peril of Nazism; at the outset of World War II he covered the German army in the field. He wrote a syndicated column for the New York Herald Tribune from 1942 to 1948, Quitting CBS in 1947 in a dispute over the scope for personal opinions, he worked for the Mutual Broadcasting System before turning to writing full-time. His comprehensive study of the Nazi regime and its origins, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1960), though called oversensational by some and condemned in West Germany as anti-German, won wide praise and a National Book Award, besides becoming a best-seller. Other books range from Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934--41 (1941) to Gandhi: A Memoir (1979), based on interviews with Mahatma Gandhi in the 1930s. His two-volume memoir, Twentieth Century Journey, was published in 1976 and 1984.
WILLIAM L. SHIRER http://www.overlookpress.com/history/thisberlin.shtml With an Introduction by John Keegan and a Preface by Inga Shirer Dean This is Berlin Radio Broadcasts from Nazi Germany "A comprehensive and detailed journal by a reporter gifted with a camera eye and a tape-recorder ear…William Shirer preserved an insightful and invaluable record of a focal part of our history's worst of times" —The New York Times Book Review William Shirer, the acclaimed journalist whose The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich quickly became, and still remains, the standard work on Nazi Germany, was a masterful chronicler of the events in Europe that led up to World War II. This is Berlin gathers together two-and-a-half years worth of his daily CBS radio broadcasts that described the menacing steps Germany took toward World War II, just as America and the world heard them. "It would be almost impossible to overstate the importance of William L. Shirer's broadcasts from Germany…Mr. Shirer's descriptions…read as well as they were heard 60 years ago," said the Dallas Morning News. Covered here is the staggering news of the almost unbelievable Soviet-Nazi non-aggression pact; German threats against Poland and the Nazi invasions of Norway, Denmark, Holland and Belgium; the Battle of France; the Battle of Britain; and the threatened German invasion across the Channel. With chilling immediacy, Shirer's compelling and urgent writings take readers to the front, providing flashpoints of the imminent war in the words of America's most trusted correspondence. An introduction by noted historian John Keegan and a preface by Shirer's daughter, Inga Shirer Dean, put Shirer's life and work into context. "Here is a vivid, compelling and urgent narrative, one of the great first- hand documents of the Second World War-The diary of Western civilization's slide into world war and genocide." — Cleveland Plain Dealer "These transcripts paint a vivid picture of Nazism at its zenith...this new book will give you a sense of how much scarier World War II was before the outcome was known." —National Review "Shirer's broadcasts…are models of eloquence and subterfuge…read so well that one can imagine their power transmitted over the radio waves to an unsettled world…offer a firsthand look at history in the making with such immediacy that any reader will find it hard to put down." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) "His broadcasts…have an enduring freshness." —Sunday Times William L. Shirer (1904-1994) was a newspaper correspondent and radio journalist in the years before and during World War II. He is the author of the critically acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich as well as Berlin Diary, The Nightmare Years and many other works. ISBN: 1-58567-279-3 $18.95 paperback ($27.99CAN)/ 6 x 9 / 478 pp. May 2002 ISBN: 0-87951-719-0 $37.95 hardcover / 6x9 / 480 pp. October 1999 Contact Us • Overlook Press Home • Ordering Information • Back to History Copyright © 2000 The Overlook Press Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. 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