Here's a rare opportunity to purchase both of the titles in William Shirer's Berlin Diary series.
The first Berlin Diary ("The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934–1941") is a first-hand account of the rise of Nazi Germany and its road to war, as witnessed by the American journalist William Shirer. Shirer covered Germany for several years as a radio reporter for CBS. Feeling increasingly uncomfortable as the Nazi press censors made it impossible for him to report objectively to his listeners in the United States, Shirer eventually left the country. The identities of many of Shirer's German sources were disguised to protect them from retaliation by the Gestapo. It provided much of the material for his subsequent landmark book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, also available at Lakeview Publishing.
It was "the first attempt by a big-name American journalist to shed light on what was really happening in Nazi Germany" and sold almost 600,000 copies in the first year of its publication. The book was widely praised by academics and critics at the time of its publication. A recent literary study comparing the original diary in Shirer's literary estate with the published text revealed that Shirer made substantial changes, such as revising his early favourable impressions of Hitler. Much of the text about the period before the war (1934 to 1938) was written retroactively.
In 1947, End of a Berlin Diary continued the story of the Third Reich, from July 20, 1944, to the Nuremberg Trials.
These two books were not published at the same time and have different formats as shown in the photos.