Diario de Berlín, 1934-1941

First published in 1941, the foresight, passion and tension of the Berlin Diary found an information-hungry audience and immediately made it a reference text on the torrent of events unfolding in Europe. The strict censorship of the Nazis forced Shirer, CBS's Berlin correspondent, to reserve the best of his lucidity and intelligence for his personal diary. His extraordinary annotations constitute the journalistic chronicle that he could not transmit. Illuminated by a deep knowledge of German and European life of the time and an understanding of the deepest currents of international politics, in its pages we witness the arrogant advance of the Third Reich and the unstoppable march of Europe towards war. Diario de Berlin shows that journalism is sometimes not only the first draft of history, but its best version.