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William Shirer

USA · Third Reich — political and military history

About

CBS correspondent in Berlin during the 1930s. His Rise and Fall of the Third Reich remains the best-known popular history of Nazi Germany.

Books in Database (2)

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Berlin Diary 1941 · 605 pages

Shirer's actual diary as CBS correspondent in Berlin, from the Anschluss to the fall of France — published while the war still hung in the balance.

Memoir
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich 1960 · 1249 pages

A monumental history of Nazi Germany from its origins through its destruction, written by a journalist who reported from Hitler's Berlin.

Popular History

Events Covered

1939 Invasion of Poland 1940 Dunkirk Evacuation 1941 Operation Barbarossa 1942 Battle of Stalingrad 1944 D-Day / Normandy Landings 1945 Fall of Berlin 1940 Battle of Britain & The Blitz