THE LONG NIGHT William L. Shirer and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Steve Wick

ISBN 10: 0230623182 / ISBN 13: 9780230623187

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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First American Edition. New in dust jacket. 8vo (266 pages; illustrated with black and white photographs).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE LONG NIGHT William L. Shirer and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230623182
• ISBN 13: 9780230623187
• Binding: Hardcover in Dust Jacket
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

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. Murrow’s 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 party’s 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

About the Author

Steve Wick is a senior editor at Newsday and the author of Bad Company: Drugs, Hollywood and the Cotton Club Murder, among others. He has been a journalist for 30 years and has won dozens of writing and reporting awards, including sharing in two Pulitzer Prizes for local reporting.