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Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
Berlin Diary The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 19341941 Author:William L. Shirer An eyewitness account of Hitler's Germany by the author of "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich". First published in 1941. — "The subject of this diary," William L. Shirer writes, "is not, except incidentally, its keeper, but this Europe which he watched with increasing fascination and horror plunge madly down the road to Armageddon in the last ... more »half of the 1930s."
For readers in its own time, "Berlin Diary" was the first uncensored account of Germany's march toward war. Published in July 1941, it met a ready audience and was an immediate bestseller. And for American readers today, who may be accustomed to dating the start of World War II to the last month of 1941, "Berlin Diary" offers an unparalleled education.
Shirer's compelling diary entries, animated with eyewitness knowledge of contemporary German life as well as a grasp of the larger currents of European politics, follows the rise of the Third Reich and charts the relentless progress of the coming conflict long before it encompassed the full force of our national interest. We see with unimpeachable evidence the improvisatory, shifting shape of events as they unfold before they've become history.« less