A selection of articles and book condensations in which The Reader's Digest recorded the Second World War Contents includes: Forward—The News That Became History (Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Horrocks) Hitler on the March (William L. Shirer) 'Take Cover!' An Air Head Warden Remembers (George Graham) The Enemy's Masterpiece of Espionage (J. Edgar Hoover) The Cruise of the Raider Atlantis (Robert Littell) The Siege of Fort Eben Emael (Lieutenant-Colonel Paul W. Thompson) The Last Enemy (Richard Hillary) Miss Victoria (Patricia Strauss) The Prisoners of Difference (Edwin Muller) Miracle of Dunkirk (Arthur Divine) Hero When He Had to Be (Edwin Muller) Giraud's Brilliant Escape from a Nazi Prison (Frederick Painton) How Britian's Wealth Went West (Leland Snow) Shepherds of the Underground (George Kent) The Frogman Who Crippled a Fleet (J. D. Ratcliff) The Man Who Did Business With Himmler (Edwin Muller) The Hunting of the Bismarck (Captain Russell Grenfell, RN) A Night to Remember (Quentin Reynolds) The Case of the Seasick Stoker (John Rhodes Sturdy) Two Men and an Army (Allan Michie) The Girl Who Wa Anne Frank (Louis de Jong) Blueprint for Pearl Harbour (Edwin Muller) The Infamous Seventh of December (Blake Clark) The Password was Mandalay (Lieutenant-Colonal James Warner Bellah) Secret Mission to North Africa (Frederick Painton) Eleveb Against the Nazi A-Bomb (Frederick Sondern) A Day of Sweeping Mines Off Dover (William L. White) The Hunt for a Spy (Carl Wall) Death in the Lifeboat (Walter Gibson) Joey's Quiet War (Thomas Johnson) What They Call Bravery (Carl Wall) Tunnel to Freedom (Paul Brickhill and Allan Michie) The Short, Sharp Battle of Kelibia Point (George Palmer and Frederic Sondern) The Savage Recruits from Burma (Ralph Herderson) When Hitler Invaded America (Lawrence Elliott) Scarlett Pimpernels of the Air (Allan Michie) The Silent, Invisible War Under the Sea (Ira Wolfert) I Was Monty's Double (M. E. Clifton James)
Author
William Lawrence Shirer was an American journalist and historian. He became known for his broadcasts on CBS from the German capital of Berlin through the first year of World War II. Shirer first became famous through his account of those years in his Berlin Diary (published in 1941), but his greatest achievement was his 1960 book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, originally published by Simon & Schuster. This book of well over 1000 pages is still in print, and is a detailed examination of the Third Reich filled with historical information from German archives captured at the end of the war, along with impressions Shirer gained during his days as a correspondent in Berlin. Later, in 1969, his work The Collapse of the Third Republic drew on his experience spent living and working in France from 1925 to 1933. This work is filled with historical information about the Battle of France from the secret orders and reports of the French High Command and of the commanding generals of the field. Shirer also used the memoirs, journals, and diaries of the prominent British, Italian, Spanish, and French figures in government, Parliament, the Army, and diplomacy.
