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Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
by William L. Shirer
Product Group: Book
Publisher: BBS Publishing Corporation (1995-10)
ISBN: 0883659220
EAN: 9780883659229
Dewy Decimal #: 355
Hardcover: 640 pages
SKU: 43894
Condition: Collectable Very Goo
Comments: THE HARDBACK BOOK! THE UNABRIDGED EDITION. 1941, WITH WONDERFUL PICTURES! HARDBACK BOOK AND PAGES ARE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. STANDARD USED FOR A BOOK FROM 1941. NO DUST JACKET. SHIPS IMMEDIATELY. PRIORITY AIR MAIL.
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Product Description
A precurser to the author's best-selling The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich describes the harrowing Nazi rise to power in Germany during the second half of the 1930s and profiles Hitler's complex personality.
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the ideal first person account
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-12-31
A long time ago, there were journalists who knew what their jobs were and weren't, and Bill Shirer was in the first rank of these. This is an indispensable history of a man on the street in Berlin as it went over the tipping point into total war, and reading it is feeling a pulse otherwise largley unreported upon. The feeling in Germany as it passes from feverish hysteria into jaded ennui doesn't escape Shirer, and I recommend this work over Hitler moves East and Churchill's endless volumes for people who like being interested in what they're reading, and who would like to avoid a painful period vernacular, or baroque fluffery. This book is a must-read for the beginning student of journalism, history, or writing in general.
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HE IS NOT CALLING BALLS AND STRIKES AT A LITTLE LEAGUE GAME!
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-12-03
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
He was there at the nazi rallies;He followed the invasons,and most importantly, heard and saw the writing on the walls of the average german as the madness grew..The proaganda by goerbells is commented on regularly, etc. I have the original spring 1941 edition before the US declaration of war,so it appears even more valid somehow.Every WW2 history buff must read this book to round out any education. I also recomend it to all journalists,and history teachers.I recall his comment in 1938 (as the nazis annexed Austria)that 20 or more Jews committed suicide that day as a german army entered(Salzburg or Vienna? It's a book I couldn't put down.Some reviewers shouted "he's prejudiced". Ha! Shirer was not an umpire calling games at Yankee stadium" in 1938,-these 'thugs'were sending all opponents to concentration camps or worse, Shirer comments how by 1940 these bas_ards were going into the hospitals to remove the mental cases and send them to death camps.Thank g_d he was 'prejudiced enough' to write it down.
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Berlin Diary by William L. Shirer
Rating  (4)
Date: 2007-05-06
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
A well-written contemporaneous account of a correspondent's life in Nazi Germany up to 1940. Shirer is almost prescient in his assessment of Hitler's actions and their consequences. It is unfortunate that he could not continue his reporting after 1940, because an account of this caliber of the years when Germany was at war with America, made from inside Germany, would have been a valuable historical record. Shirer is a true journalist; while he offers opinions, they are clearly labeled as such, and do not get in the way of dispassionate reporting of the events he witnesses.
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good observer
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-01-29
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
The author makes a large number of observations about what is happening and how it is done. This is along with the historical recording of events. These observations have stood the test of time. They explain the German's rapid success in the early years.
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good introduction to world war 2
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-12-07
This book is an excellent account of the early years of WWII from the perspective of Mr. Shirer who was stationed in Germany as a print and radio journalist. There is quite a bit of history in this book and I found that it functions as a good introduction to the early history of WWII. It is also enlivened by some of Mr Shirer's personal anecdotes regarding broadcasting. Mr Shirer's close access to many of the leading figures in Germany and his observations of some of the war torn areas of the early German invasions gives a very realistic and graphic portrayal of how the war evolved in Europe. It is also fascinating to hear the speculation about which path the war would take. This is one factor that makes Mr Shirer's book much more interesting than a standard history text which has the benefit of hindsight. In the Berlin Diary, the reader sees history literally being created and develops a better understanding for the difficult choices the allies faced at that time.
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