The Long Night: William L. Shirer and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich de Steve Wick

The Long Night: William L. Shirer and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Steve Wick

When William L. Shirer agreed to start the Berlin bureau of CBS News in the 1930s, he quickly became both the most trusted and most determined reporter in Europe. The Long Night fleshes out the details of the maverick journalist's adventures in Europe and delivers a new perspective on the Third Reich through never-before-seen journals and letters.

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Published to widespread media attention, The Long Night follows the tremendous journey of legendary American journalist William L. Shirer. During the 1930s, Shirer brought the events in Europeto the English speaking world through his broadcasts on Edward R.Murrow's CBS.Despite the Nazis best attempts to control the airwaves, he broadcast live reports of the Germans annexation of Austria and the occupation of Paris. Unlike other foreign correspondents, Shirer never believed the Nazis and was the first to warn the world of the danger that lay ahead. After the war, Shirer penned the classic The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, published in 1960. Although he left behind diaries of his war years, this is the first biography of the maverick reporter who continues to inspire fleets of journalists and historians.

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Prologue: Leaving Berlin
The Writer
His Luck Holds
The American Correspondent
The Long Train Home
His Luck Holds Again
Gestapo at the Train Station
Berlin and the World
Tauentzienstrasse
The Watering Hole
Ten - The Dirty Liar
P*** On his Grave
Bad Writing
Get Out of the Country
Drinks at the Adlon
The Jewish Doctor
Clearing the Mountains
The Photographer
Sigrid Wakes Him Up
Lies as Thick as Grass
The Germans are Out of Their Minds
Riding in Staff Cars
War of the Worlds
A Long Train Ride to Tess
Crowded Buses
A Warning from a Friend
Postscript: The Ruins
Author's Note
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Endnotes

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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 been a journalist for 30 years and has won dozens of writing and reporting awards, including sharing in two Pulitzer Prizes for local reporting. He lives in Cutchogue, Long Island.

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Steve Wick has had access to William L. Shirer's never-before-published journals and letters to produce a rich and detailed narrative biography
This fast-paced paperback is the perfect companion to William Shirer's bestselling The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, a timeless classic that sold more than a million
Outstanding reviews for the hardback of The Long Night
'Elegantly written and engaging narrative.' - Roger Moorhouse, author of Killing Hitler
'Steve Wick makes excellent use of Shirer's letters and papers to chronicle his often fraught relationships... A seasoned journalist, Wick knows how to tell a good story, and for long stretches his book reads like a novel.' - Richard Evans, The New Republic
'An adventure story...Wick has documented the story with scrupulous attention to detail.' - Wall Street Journal

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