Background
William Lawrence Shirer was born on February 23, 1904, in Chicago, Illinois, United States to Seward Smith, an assistant U.S. district attorney, and Bessie Josephine (Tanner) Shirer.
William Lawrence Shirer
1961
William Lawrence Shirer
1961
Book: "The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler"
Washington High School
(Berlin Diary ("The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 193...)
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 L. 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 these people from retaliation by the German secret police, the Gestapo. It provided much of the material for his subsequent landmark book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
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1941
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1954
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1955
(Two volume sets. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is ...)
Two volume sets. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is Shirer's comprehensive historical interpretation of the Nazi era, positing that German history logically proceeded from Martin Luther to Adolf Hitler; and that Hitler's ascension to power was an expression of German national character, not of totalitarianism as an ideology that was internationally fashionable in the 1930s.
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1960
(The Sinking of the Bismarck: The Deadly Hunt is a 1962 hi...)
The Sinking of the Bismarck: The Deadly Hunt is a 1962 historical nonfiction book by William L. Shirer. It tells the story of the Royal Navy's hunt to destroy the German battleship, Bismarck, culminating in the final battle where the ship is sunk by gunfire and torpedoes.
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1962
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1969
(autobiography)
autobiography
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1976
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1980
(The Nightmare Years is a book by William L. Shirer, recou...)
The Nightmare Years is a book by William L. Shirer, recounting his pre-WW2 years as a journalist in Nazi Germany.
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1984
William Lawrence Shirer was born on February 23, 1904, in Chicago, Illinois, United States to Seward Smith, an assistant U.S. district attorney, and Bessie Josephine (Tanner) Shirer.
After finishing Washington High School in 1921, William Shirer enrolled in Coe College, graduating in 1925.
William Shirer began his career in journalism as the editor of the Coe College Cosmos and as a sports reporter for the Cedar Rapids Republican. After graduating from the Coe Colledge he began working as a European correspondent for the Chicago Tribune from 1925 to 1932.
Shirer's tenure with the Tribune ended in the summer of 1932. He spent the following year in Spain before accepting a job with the Paris Herald in January 1934 but soon left to take a job as a foreign correspondent in the Berlin office of the Hearst International News Service. William Shirer lost that job on August 24, 1937, but shortly after that, he was hired by CBS as a radio newsman based in Berlin, experimenting with transatlantic programming.
William Shirer gained a national reputation reporting from Berlin during the period prior to World War II as well as covering the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg in October 1945. After that, he returned to the United States to continue broadcasting for CBS. In 1947 William Shirer resigned from CBS.
William Shirer joined the Mutual Broadcasting System, where he worked from 1947 to 1949, but was blacklisted in 1950. The end of Shirer's radio career laid the foundation for a new career as a historian. During that period William Shirer survived through lecture tours on college campuses and book publications.
(Berlin Diary ("The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 193...)
1941(The Sinking of the Bismarck: The Deadly Hunt is a 1962 hi...)
1962(The Nightmare Years is a book by William L. Shirer, recou...)
1984(Two volume sets. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is ...)
1960(autobiography)
1976
Shirer William Shirer married Theresa Stiberitz in 1931. The couple had two daughters, Eileen and Linda. William Shirer and his wife divorced in 1970. In 1972 he married Martha Pelton, whom he divorced in 1975. His third wife was Irina Lugovskaya.
divorced in 1970
divorced in 1975
