The Long Night: William L. Shirer And tThe Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich

About this book

The story of legendary American journalist William L. Shirer and how his first-hand reporting on the rise of the Nazis and on World War II brought the devastation alive for millions of AmericansWhen William L. Shirer started up the Berlin bureau of Edward R. Murrows CBS News in the 1930s he quickly became the most trusted reporter in all of Europe. Shirer hit the streets to talk to both the everyman and the disenfranchised yet he gained the trust of the Nazi elite and through these contacts obtained a unique perspective of the partys rise to power.Unlike some of his esteemed colleagues he did not fall for Nazi propaganda and warned early of the consequences if the Third Reich was not stopped. When the Germans swept into Austria in 1938 Shirer was the only American reporter in Vienna and he broadcast an eyewitness account of the annexation. In 1940 he was embedded with the invading German army as it stormed into France and oc