Shirer a couple decades to write and then publish “ The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, ” but it ...

Not long after the last world war, the historian William L. Shirer had this to say about the next world war. It “will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button.

‘Go ahead, Berlin!’ And with those words CBS brought to us a voice which is by now familiar to many an American household, the voice of William L. Shirer (p. 265), radio’s ace commentator ...