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William Lawrence Shirer (/ ˈ ʃ aɪ r ər /; February 23, 1904 – December 28, 1993) was an American journalist and war correspondent. He wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich , a history of Nazi Germany that has been read by many and cited in scholarly works for more than 50 years.
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Feb 19, 2024 · William L. Shirer (born Feb. 23, 1904, Chicago, Ill., U.S.—died Dec. 28, 1993, Boston, Mass.) American journalist, historian, and novelist, best known for his massive study The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (1960). In the 1920s and ’30s Shirer was stationed in Europe and in India as a foreign correspondent for ...
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American journalist, foreign correspondent, author, and pioneer radio broadcaster William L. Shirer was one of the major observers and chroniclers of the Nazi regime. 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 radio.
Dec 29, 1993 · William L. Shirer, the author of "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" and a foreign correspondent whose pioneering live trans-Atlantic radio broadcasts on the eve of World War II helped inform...
Recently reissued, William L. Shirer’s seminal 1960 history of Nazi Germany is still important reading. Ron Rosenbaum. February 2012. William L. Shirer, who witnessed a 1934 Nazi rally in...
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany is a book by American journalist William L. Shirer in which the author chronicles the rise and fall of Nazi Germany from the birth of Adolf Hitler in 1889 to the end of World War II in Europe in 1945.
An eyewitness to many of the critical events in Europe in the 1930s, William L. Shirer (1904-1993) reported the key developments leading to World War II and wrote widely on the history of Nazi Germany. Born in Chicago, Illinois, on February 23, 1904, William Lawrence Shirer was the son of Seward Smith, a lawyer, and Josephine (Tanner) Shirer.