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The Nightmare Years, 1930-1940
- Twentieth Century Journey Series, Book 2
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 26 hrs and 56 mins
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Summary
The famous journalist and author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich documents his front row seat at the pivotal events leading up to World War II.
In the second of a three-volume series, William L. Shirer tells the story of his own eventful life, detailing the most notable moments of his career as a journalist stationed in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich. Shirer was there while Hitler celebrated his new domination of Germany, unleashed the Blitzkrieg on Poland, and began the conflict that would come to be known as World War II. This remarkable account tells the story of an American reporter caught in a maelstrom of war and politics, desperately trying to warn Europe and the United States about the dangers to come.
This memoir gives listeners a chance to relive one of the most turbulent periods in 20th-century history - painting a stunningly intimate portrait of a dangerous decade.
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- Dai pp. Sandy
- 01-05-20
The Truth will out
I was born 3 years after the second WW2 ended and grew up regailed by stories of the atrocities committed by the German nation and their allies. My mothers first husband had died of his wounds suffered whilst serving in the Kings Own in Italy 1945. My first job was working for an Austrian who had been a POW and later I served in a Government Dept were my senior officer was an ex member of the SS Hitler jugend division. How on earth can you equate these good men with murderous regime of Adolph Hitler. Now after listening to this brilliant book I can understand the brain washing of a nation. Listen and be warned is it happening again North Korea?
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- mcfontaine
- 22-05-20
Wonderfully detailed
Shirer’s writing is always so descriptive. You can see why, with Ed Murrow, he basically invented radio reporting. Grover Gardner is such a brilliant narrator, warm and poignant in his delivery.
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- Catarina
- 06-08-24
A witness of his times
Shirer spent 15 years in Europe at a crucial and tragic time of its history, and witnessed the rise of Hitler, his coming to power, and how that changed life in Germany. In this well-written and engaging book he observes how the Reich gradually chokes civil liberties, and how it becomes increasingly obvious that the Nazi regime wants nothing short of war. He reports on the invasion of Poland in 1939 and follows the German army west in 1940 as it sets out to occupy Belgium, Holland and France. He leaves Germany after the battle of Britain in December 1940 when censorship and bombings had made reporting and broadcasting from Berlin too difficult. This book is a gripping account by one eye witness in Nazi Germany who read the misleading local press, heard Hitler's deceptive talks to the German people, and recorded his reflections in many volumes of a diary he smuggled out in 1940. Shirer was disappointed by his fellow citizens' indifference and ignorance of the events in 1930s Germany and remarks that he was often the only US reporter who informed the American public about the danger of the Third Reich.
I recommend this book to anyone interested in modern European history and World War 2.
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