Description
First edition of Berlin Diary by William L. Shirer.
Octavo, 605pp, xxi. Red cloth, title stamped in silver. Top edge dyed red. Stated “first edition” on copyright page. Clean copy, free of any marks or notations. In publisher’s first state dust jacket, $3.00 on front flap, toning to spine, chipping along top edge, bright cover illustrations.
A first-hand account of the rise of the Nazi Reich in Germany. As censorship of the press increased, Shirer left the country in 1940 and published the book shortly before the United States declared war on Germany. His landmark work, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, was a best-selling book on the Nazi state.
