num_pages: 478
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")
language: English
title: This Is Berlin: Reporting from Nazi Germany 1938-40
titlecomplete: This Is Berlin: Reporting from Nazi Germany 1938-40
genres: Germany, Politics, World History, Military Fiction, War, Nonfiction, History, Memoir, World War II, Journalism
ratings_count: 274
publisher: Overlook Books