Hubby is the World War II collector and I knew he would be interested in this book, about one of his favorite authors! So here's his take on it!
Synopsis: The book begins when William Shirer is a young newpaper journalist from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, working around the world, in places from Paris to India. During this time he mets and marries his wife Tess. They have a interlude where they are in Spain for a year, after he gets fired from his newspaper job, and by chance he meets Edward Morrow, who gets him hired by CBS radio, as the Berlin reporter. He walks a very narrow line with Nazi censures, and even somewhat goes against his liberal leanings in dealing with them, in slanting the news, and is very close to being arrested before he leaves Germany, on the eve of the US entering the war. His liberal leanings are part of the massive blowup he has with Morrow, and why he left CBS after the war. He eventually becomes a writer and writes the massive book "Rise and Fall of the Thrid Reich", on which he spent 10 years researching and writing. He does visit Morrow, before Morrow die,s but is headstrong and resistent to forgiving him, even though he perceives Morrow wants his forgiveness.
Review: This is an interesting book, with many details of Mr. Shirer's experiences reporting aboutNazi Germany, and the obstacles he had to overcome. It is well done by the author Stever Wick, who is himself a journalist and the book is styled as a adventure through history.
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 won dozens of writing and reporting awards, including two shared Pulitzer Prizes for local reporting, and Columbia University's prestigious Berger Award for feature writing.
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Synopsis: The book begins when William Shirer is a young newpaper journalist from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, working around the world, in places from Paris to India. During this time he mets and marries his wife Tess. They have a interlude where they are in Spain for a year, after he gets fired from his newspaper job, and by chance he meets Edward Morrow, who gets him hired by CBS radio, as the Berlin reporter. He walks a very narrow line with Nazi censures, and even somewhat goes against his liberal leanings in dealing with them, in slanting the news, and is very close to being arrested before he leaves Germany, on the eve of the US entering the war. His liberal leanings are part of the massive blowup he has with Morrow, and why he left CBS after the war. He eventually becomes a writer and writes the massive book "Rise and Fall of the Thrid Reich", on which he spent 10 years researching and writing. He does visit Morrow, before Morrow die,s but is headstrong and resistent to forgiving him, even though he perceives Morrow wants his forgiveness.
Review: This is an interesting book, with many details of Mr. Shirer's experiences reporting aboutNazi Germany, and the obstacles he had to overcome. It is well done by the author Stever Wick, who is himself a journalist and the book is styled as a adventure through history.
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 won dozens of writing and reporting awards, including two shared Pulitzer Prizes for local reporting, and Columbia University's prestigious Berger Award for feature writing.
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Disclosure / Disclaimer: I received this book, free of charge, from the author, via Bostick Communications, for review purposes on this blog. No other compensation, monetary or in kind, has been received or implied for this post. Nor was I told how to post about it.
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