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A Short Biography of William Lawrence Shirer

Author Name:

William Lawrence Shirer

Born As:

William Lawrence Shirer

Other Names:

Born:

23 Feb 1904

Died:

28 Dec 1993




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Historian, journalist and author                          
Selected Woks:

Non-fiction -

Berlin Diary - 1941
End of a Berlin Diary - 1947
Mid-century Journey - 1952
The Challenge of Scandinavia - 1955
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - 1960
The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler - 1961
The Sinking of the Bismarck - 1962
The Collapse of the Third Republic - 1969
20th Century Journey - 1976
Gandhi: A Memoir - 1980
The Nightmare Years - 1984
A Native's Return - 1990
Love and Hatred: The Troubled Marriage of Leo and Sonya Tolstoy - 1994
This is Berlin - 1999

Fiction -

The Traitor - 1950
Stranger Come Home - 1954
The Consul's Wife - 1956.

In 2001 a compilation of Shirer's CBS broadcasts from Europe, called This Is Berlin: Reporting from Nazi Germany, 1938 - 1940 was published.                          
Wife Tess three daughters Eileen, Inga, and Linda.                          
Known for his broadcasts on CBS from the German capital of Berlin during the Third Reich through the first year of World War II.                          
William Shirer was the CBS radio's foreign correspondent in France and Germany from 1925-1945. This work was extensively researched through the writer's access to captured Nazi documents that escaped destruction during the Nazi defeat in 1945.