Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Berlin Diary | 1941 | William L. Shirer | N/A |
| 2 | Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941 | 1941 | William L. Shirer | Buy |
| 3 | End of a Berlin Diary | 1947 | William L. Shirer | Buy |
The Berlin Diary series by William L. Shirer is listed below in reading order.
Berlin Diary (1941) was compiled from the journal Shirer kept while working as a CBS Radio correspondent in Berlin from 1934 to 1940. It recorded life inside Nazi Germany with the immediacy of someone who was there, and became a bestseller when it was published just months before the United States entered World War II. The reprint edition carries the expanded subtitle “The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941.”
End of a Berlin Diary (1947) picks up the story in 1945, when Shirer returned to Germany to cover the Nuremberg trials and witness the aftermath of the war. Together, the books offer a journalist’s ground-level view of the Third Reich from its rise through its collapse.