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Title: William L. Shirer : 20th Century Journey, a Memoir of a Life and the Times : The Start : 1904-1930/the Nightmare Years : 1930-1940 by William L. Shirer ISBN: 0-553-32335-0 Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group Pub. Date: 01 November, 1986 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $25.90

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Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: An Absorbing Look At The Origins and Early Career Of Shirer!
Comment: Anyone familiar with William Shirer's spectacular and varied career as an international journalist, war correspondent, radio commentator, and best-selling author of such tomes as "Berlin Diary", "The Rise & fall Of The Third Reich", "The Nightmare Years" and many others will appreciate this interesting and down-to-earth autobiographical effort covering Shirer's formative years. It includes the obligatory starving young newspaper correspondent phase, lived on the run as a poor but socially active and well-fed expatriate dwelling on Paris's famed Left Bank just after WWI in the early 1920s, rubbing shoulders with a young and unknown Ernest Hemingway, interviewing literary maven Gertrude Stein, or chatting with James Joyce.

This is fascinating stuff, a tale heartily told by Shirer, who originally wanted to follow in Hemingway's illustrious footsteps but soon recognized his own talents lay in reporting and non-fiction rather than with creative fiction writing. Soon he was of to India, Pakistan, and China, and by the early 30s had earned a reputation for reporting that eventually led to his assignment for a Chicago paper in Berlin in the mid 1930s. So strategically placed, it was inevitable that a man of his talents and gifts for writing would find himself famously chronically the rise of Hitler and the National Socialists with verve, clarity, and an uncommon gift for recognizing where all this was going. AS the book closes, he is leaving Berlin by express invitation of the nazis, and goes home to write his first tome, "Berlin Diary".

I must confess to being a Shirer addict, having read just about everything he has published. Now that he is finally gone (having died within the last few years), we are left with few of the brilliant cast of WWII alumni like John Toland, William Manchester, Cornelius Ryan, and William Shirer that so often illuminated us with their native intellect, writing skills, and sheer presence. But be of good cheer; they each have left us with a treasure trove of literary gifts we can enjoy at our leisure. Read this and remember.

Rating: 4
Summary: A journalist's account of his years in Nazi Germany.
Comment: It's ridiculous that this book is out of print, especially as it adds so much personal detail to Shirer's best-seller The Rise And Fall Of the Third Reich, and his earlier Berlin Diary. There is a certain amount of overlap, but the picture of daily life for a foreign correspondent in Nazi Germany is extremely vivid - much more so than Shirer's heavily censored despatches, which have just been published as This Is Berlin.

Rating: 5
Summary: The best book I have ever read!
Comment: This is the classic definitive account of the events leading up to the outbreak of the Second World War and the early years of the war in Germany. The book is exciting, exhilirating and beautifully written, not by someone purely with an interest in the War but by a journalist who was actually there and experienced it all first hand. Shirer was an amazing man. If you never read anything else again - read this book! How could the publishers let it go out of print!