
End of a Berlin Diary
The Berlin Diary Series, Book 2
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Grover Gardner
A radio broadcaster and journalist for Edward R. Murrow at CBS, William L. Shirer was new to the world of broadcast journalism when he began keeping a diary while on assignment in Europe during the 1930s. It was in 1940, when he was still virtually unknown, that Shirer wondered whether his eyewitness account of the collapse of the world around Nazi Germany could be of any interest or value as a book.
Shirer’s Berlin Diary, which is considered the first full record of what was happening in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich, appeared in 1941. The book was an instant success - and would not be the last of his expert observations on Europe.
Shirer returned to the European front in 1944 to cover the end of the war. As the smoke cleared, Shirer - who watched the birth of a monster that threatened to engulf the world - now stood witness to the death of the Third Reich.
End of a Berlin Diary chronicles this year-long study of Germany after Hitler. Through a combination of Shirer’s lucid, honest reporting, along with passages on the Nuremberg trials, copies of captured Nazi documents, and an eyewitness account of Hitler’s last days, Shirer provides insight into the unrest, the weariness, and the tentative steps world leaders took towards peace.
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beginning of the end the end of the beginnin
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Diaries of the powerful
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The other downside of the book is that he uses a ton of filler to pad out the length - so it’s not 10 hours or whatever of his writings - it’s probably like 4-5 hours with some speeches and reports to fill out the length. It’s not boring or uninteresting - but I’d have much rather listened to him talk about his return to Germany and get more detail and opinion from that.
The reader does a great job - fits the book perfectly.
Not in the same league as his other writings, but not bad
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Fantastic book.
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historic importance
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I would say this is but one step down from his first Berlin diary book, but exceptional nonetheless.
Exceptional first-person history
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Don’t miss this piece of history!
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Full Circle
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PS. As in most Anglo-American books about WWII, not much is written about the Soviet Army that defeated the nazis and fought the battle of Berlin…
Historical journalism
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Good if you like Shirer
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