This is a remarkable book that bears rereading, especially in these times of newspaper and television station cutbacks. Shirer was present at so many important Nazi events during the crucial 1930s. He gives first hand accounts. However there is another theme to this book. His job with various journalism employers, print and media, was so often uncertain. He was determined to stay, but even had to take a year without pay to stay in Europe. (Vacationing in Spain).

One reads over and over accounts of things that seem not to have happened had the other countries stepped up to the plate. The Munich syndrome is with us today as a result of this.

Am expected and timely aside, his coverage of the coranation of the last Afghan king, with some original photographs, early in the book before he took over the German beat. ( )

Autobiography, William L Shirer, Nazii Germany, third reich

Personal experiences and on-the-spot journalism. ( )