William L. Shirer wrote history, journalism and memoir about twentieth-century Europe, especially Nazi Germany and the Second World War. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is his best-known work, a large narrative history that follows the Nazi movement from its origins through Hitler's dictatorship, war and collapse, drawing heavily on captured German documents and Shirer's experience as a correspondent in Berlin. Berlin Diary records his observations from Europe during the years leading into the war and offers the immediacy of contemporary reporting rather than retrospective synthesis. The Collapse of the Third Republic examines France between the First World War and the defeat of 1940. Shirer writes for general readers, combining political narrative, personalities, diplomacy and military events in long chronological arcs. His interpretations reflect the scholarship and assumptions of his era and are best supplemented by newer histories where historiographical questions matter. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is the principal starting point for his work. Read more Less
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