"This Is Berlin": Radio Broadcasts from Nazi Germany

Description

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. Here is a vivid, compelling, and urgent narrative, one of the great first-hand documents of the Second World War.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."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." ("Dallas Morning News")"Shirer's broadcasts . . . are models of eloquence and subterfuge . . . any reader will find it hard to put down." ("Publishers Weekly," starred review)"His broadcasts . . . have an enduring freshness." ("Sunday Times")