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The play is set in Finland between 1938 and 1940 and concerns a Nobel Prize -winning Finnish scientist (portrayed by Alfred Lunt, whose own stepfather was a Finnish-born physician) and his American-born wife (portrayed by Lynn Fontanne), both of whom are reluctant to believe that the Russians will invade their beloved Finland.
- Robert E. Sherwood
- 1940
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson. 5 on Amazon. . While not a traditional biography, this Pulitzer Prize-winning book provides a detailed and engrossing account of the Allied campaign in North Africa during World War II.
Oct 11, 2011 · The famed foreign correspondent and historian William L. Shirer, who had watched and reported on the Nazis since 1925, spent five and a half years sifting through this massive documentation. The result is a monumental study that has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of one of the most frightening chapters in the history of mankind.
- 1960
- William L. Shirer
Apr 12, 2024 · The author and Pulitzer prize finalist, who has written the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club, Nuclear War: A scenario, on the "shocking truths" about a nuclear attack. By Annie Jacobsen ...
Jun 10, 2015 · In November 1957, a Newsweek column called “Where Are They Now?” noted that William L. Shirer, “made famous by his nightly radio reports from Berlin during the early years of the war and by ...
William L. Shirer. American journalist, foreign correspondent, author, and pioneer radio broadcaster William L. Shirer was one of the major observers and chroniclers of the Nazi regime. Key Facts. 1. Shirer was among a group of American foreign correspondents known as “Murrow’s Boys” who reported on Nazi Germany and World War II for CBS ...
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Peabody Award. (Outstanding Reporting and Interpretation of the News.) Check all the awards won and nominated for by William L. Shirer - National Book Award for Nonfiction (1961) , Peabody Award (1946) and more awards. William Lawrence Shirer was an American journalist, war correspondent, and historian, who wrote...
