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Author : Shirer William Lawrence
Title : Berlin Diary The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
Year : 1941

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Most diaries, it may well be, are written with no thought of publication. They have no reader's eye in view. They are personal, intimate, confidential, a part of oneself that is better hidden from the crass outside world. This journal makes no pretence to being of that kind. It was recorded for my own pleasure and peace of mind, to be sure, but also-to be perfectly frank-with the idea that one day most of it might be published, if any publisher cared to commit _ it to print. Obviously this was not because I deemed for one second that I and the life I led were of the slightest importance or even of any particular interest to the public. The only justification in my own mind was that chance, and the kind of job I had, appeared to be giving me a somewhat unusual opportunity to set down from day to day a first-hand account of a Europe that was already in agony and that, as the months and years unfolded, slipped inexorably towards the abyss of war and self-destruction. ...