William L. Shirer Livres

Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years. It lasted only 12. But those 12 years contained some of the most catastrophic events Western civilization has ever known. No other powerful empire ever bequeathed such mountains of evidence about its birth and destruction as the Third Reich. When the bitter war was over, and before the Nazis could destroy their files, the Allied demand for unconditional surrender produced an almost hour-by-hour record of the nightmare empire built by Adolph Hitler. This record included the testimony of Nazi leaders and of concentration camp inmates, the diaries of officials, transcripts of secret conferences, army orders, private letters—all the vast paperwork behind Hitler's drive to conquer the world. 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. This worldwide bestseller has been acclaimed as the definitive book on Nazi Germany; it is a classic work. The accounts of how the United States got involved and how Hitler used Mussolini and Japan are astonishing, and the coverage of the war-from Germany's early successes to her eventual defeat-is must reading

A precurser to the author's best-selling The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich describes the harrowing Nazi rise to power in Germany during the second half of the 1930s and profiles Hitler's complex personality.

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Through these articles, translations of Hitler's speeches and his own broadcasts William Shirer shows how he tried to warn the Western world of the terrible evil that was arising in Germany. The author describes from first hand the years in which a collective madness gripped the German soul.

At the beginning of the 1930s, historian William L. Shirer was sent to India by the Chicago Tribune to cover the rise of the Independence Movement. During this time Shirer was privileged to observe Mahatma Gandhi as he launched the Civil Disobedience Campaign and to enjoy his personal friendship and confidence. In this fascinating memoir, Shirer writes perceptively and unforgettably about Gandhi's frailties as well as his accomplishments. Despite his greatness, Gandhi was the first to admit that he was a human being with his own prejudices and peculiarities: he could be stubborn and dictatorial, yet the magnificence of the man rose above all else. "Gandhi: A Memoir" sheds a special light on the man who left such an indelible imprint on India and the world.

This book seeks to answer the question of why the long and fruitful life of Leo Tolstoy ended in a strange, irrational, and tragic manner, as he spent his final days very alone in a remote location. This book is not merely a biography of the great writer and moralist of Russia, nor is it solely about his remarkable life. Aside from two English translations by Russian writers written seventy-five years ago, there has been no book in English that addresses the suffering of the final years of this outstanding literary genius and his talented, troubled wife, and the tragic ending of their lives. All historians and biographers have written based on the works of their predecessors, but this book is primarily based on the memories, notes, and letters of Leo Tolstoy and his wife, their daughter Tanya, and Dr. Dushan P. Makovitsky - their family doctor and resident of their home, - Valentin Bulgakov - the last young secretary of the great writer - and firsthand testimonies from Tolstoy's children - Sergei, Ilya, Tanya, and Alexandra - as well as the unreliable memories left by Vladimir Chertkov, an old friend and cunning adversary of Lady Tolstoy during the last twenty-seven years of Tolstoy's life.

William L. Shirer (1904–1994) pracoval v letech před druhou světovou válkou a během ní jako novinový dopisovatel a rozhlasový hlasatel společnosti CBS. Mezi jeho úspěšné a kritikou uznávané knihy patří bestsellery The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (česky Vzestup a pád Třetí říše, L. Marek, Brno 2004), This is Berlin a The nightmare years. Berlínský deník vyšel poprvé v roce 1941 a jeho načasování bylo perfektní. Tryskala z něho energie, vášeň a napětí. Kniha se okamžitě setkala s nadšeným přijetím a stala se prvním odkazem své doby, na jehož základě mnoho přemýšlivých Američanů posuzovalo události v Evropě. Jednalo se o ten ideální případ, kdy se správný novinář ocitl ve správnou dobu na správném místě. Kniha - napsána novinářem jako očitým svědkem - představovala a stále představuje jedno z nemnoha děl svého druhu.

Das "Berliner Tagebuch" von William L. Shirer, einem amerikanischen Journalisten, dokumentiert seine Erlebnisse in Deutschland während der 1930er Jahre bis 1941. Es bietet ein authentisches und kritisches Zeugnis der Zeitgeschichte, einschließlich seiner Begegnungen mit dem 'Dritten Reich' und dem Alltag der Menschen in Nazideutschland.

Als internationaler Kriegsberichterstatter und Rundfunkkommentator war William L. Shirer nicht nur Forscher des Falls Frankreichs, er war dabei. In nur sechs Wochen beobachtete er, wie das Dritte Reich eine der ältesten Militärmächte der Welt stürzte und ein Regime der Angst und Paranoia einführte. Basierend auf persönlichen Gesprächen mit den Führern, Diplomaten, Generälen und gewöhnlichen Bürgern, die die Ereignisse dieser Zeit prägten und täglich erlebten, gestaltet Shirer einen fesselnden Bericht über historische Ereignisse, ohne die persönliche Erfahrung aus den Augen zu verlieren. Von den heldenhaften Bemühungen der Freiheitskämpfer bis zu den taktischen militärischen Fehlurteilen, die zum Fall führten, und den täglichen Realitäten des Lebens für französische Bürger unter nationalsozialistischer Herrschaft, macht dieser faszinierende und umfassend dokumentierte Bericht eines der wichtigsten Historiker des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts die Ereignisse des Falls für ein jüngeres Publikum in lebendiger und einprägsamer Weise zugänglich.

Die Fortsetzung und der Abschluss des 'Berliner Tagebuchs' bieten einen eindringlichen Einblick in das Ende des 'Dritten Reiches' und die Nürnberger Kriegsverbrecherprozesse. Der amerikanische Korrespondent enthüllt schockierende Dokumente über das Ausmaß faschistischer Demagogie und diplomatischer Machenschaften während des Zweiten Weltkrieges.