Talk:Berlin Diary
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I'd like to see the sourcing for the depiction of End of a Berlin Diary as "generally considered to be a lesser work." By whom? What is the basis of this assertion? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tomstoner (talk • contribs)
- While I agree that End of a Berlin Diary is a lesser work than Berlin Diary, I agree that this assertion ought to be attributed or removed.
- Also, please sign your comments by typing four tildes (~~~~). Thanks. — JonRoma 03:48, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] End of a Berlin Diary info removed
I've pulled the following from this entry since it more properly belongs in its own article space and was detracting from this entry. --BrokenSphere 15:51, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
Shirer wrote a sequel to the diary in 1947, End of a Berlin Diary (ISBN 1-56849-428-9), which is generally considered to be a lesser work. Certainly the coverage of Germany in the aftermath of the Third Reich and the war's destruction is less spellbinding than the original Berlin Diary's coverage of the political events during the early years of the Third Reich and the German military triumphs during the war's first year.
In the sequel, Shirer returns to a shattered Berlin and, among other interesting events, has a chance meeting with a Russian soldier who'd read the author's translated diary in the trenches near Stalingrad. The book includes many captured Nazi documents relating to the war and Nazi atrocities, many of which were uncovered for the prosecution of the Nuremberg Trial, which Shirer also covers in the sequel.
