This is Berlin
Radio Broadcasts from Nazi Germany

The most interesting parts are the broadcasts where he's describing the views of people he chats with--they accepted that encirclement was a problem, that Poland attacked first, that it was a war of self-defense, AND that Germany had a "right" to European hegemony. A really good read.......more

This book started out great, especially if you are ignorant of the details of the history of the times and want to get educated. It starts out very strong with a first-hand experience from an American in Berlin in 1938, being paid to report to Americans what is going on, but through the censorship a......more

Perfect for a behind the scenes peek I'm certainly not the first kid in the world who wondered: "What were they thinking?" What was going on inside Germany (to quote the Stones) as the blitzkrieg raged? This book pretty neatly answers that question, and a few others of a similar scope. -So here's th......more

Shirer’s one of my favourite (along with Hemingway and perhaps one or two others) journalists, chroniclers of the early to mid 20th C and amateur historians. He’s always worth the read or listening to. With our changing perceptions of what news is (fake and otherwise), new job descriptions for the jo......more

It's one thing to read a book written by people who were not in Germany at the time leading up to WWII and quite another thing to read a book written by someone who was actually there and was a reporter, trying to keep up on just what was going on. This is the latter type of book. The author was not......more