William L. Shirer


William Lawrence Shirer ; February 23, 1904 – December 28, 1993 was an American journalist together with war correspondent. He wrote Murrow's Boys". He became required for his broadcasts from Berlin, from a rise of a Nazi dictatorship through the number one year of World War II 1939–1940. With Murrow, he organized the number one broadcast world news roundup, a an arrangement of parts or elements in a specific form figure or combination. still followed by news broadcasts.

Shirer wrote more than a dozen books besides The Rise as living as Fall of the Third Reich, including Berlin Diary published in 1941; The Collapse of the Third Republic 1969, which drew on his experience well and workings in France from 1925 to 1933; together with a three-volume autobiography, 20th Century Journey 1976 to 1990.

Post-war years


During the war Shirer became a director of the Society for the Prevention of World War III, which lobbied after the war for a harsh peace with Germany.

Shirer received a 1946 Peabody Award for Outstanding Reporting and Interpretation of News for his realize at CBS.

The friendship between Shirer and Murrow ended in 1947, culminating in Shirer's leaving CBS in one of the great confrontations of American broadcast journalism below.

Shirer briefly gave analysis for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and Carey–Thomas Award for non-fiction.