Nightmare Years: 1930 -1940 (20th Century Journey: A Memoir of a Life and the Times, Volume II [2])

xvii, 654 pp. 8vo. Includes section of black & white photographs. "As European correspondent for a number of American newspapers during the 1930s, William L. Shirer witnessed at first hand many of the pivotal events in the buildup to World War II. At the Nuremberg rallies, when Hitler roared through the streets celebrating his newly-won domination of Germany, Shirer was there. In Munich, as Chamberlain abandoned the Czechs, Shirer was there. In Vienna during the night of the Anschluss, in Berlin, when Hitler loosed his Blitzkrieg on Poland and began the war, Shirer was there. Through articles, broadcasts and translations of Hitler's speeches, Shirer tirelessly tried to warn the world of the terrible evil that was growing in Germany. The Nightmare Years, a No. I bestseller when first published in America in 1984, is not only the fascinating eyewitness account of this cataclysmic decade, but also the more personal story of a young American caught in tense and desperate times, struggling to survive and provide a life for himself and his family as the world lurched inexorably towards war." CONTENTS:Introduction; The Road to Berlin, 1930-1934; Home to Vienna from India, 1930: An Interlude in Kabul; Home to Vienna from India, 1930: A Stopover in Ur; Married, Fired. Vienna, 1931-1932; The Year Off in Spain, 1933; Return to Paris, 1934; Life and Work in the Third Reich, 1934-1937: Hitler and the Third Reich: First Impressions, 1934-1935; Life in the Third Reich, 1934-1937; The Men Around Hitler; The Road to Armageddon, 1935-1938: The First Stretch, 1935-1936; Time Off to Live, 1935-1937; A New Job in a New Field, 1937; Return to Vienna. Anschluss. The End of Austria. A Breakthrough in Broadcasting the News, 1937-1938; Munich, 1938; The Coming of World War II, 1939-1940: The Last Months of Peace, 1939; War! The Conquest of Poland, Sitzkreig in the West. The Overrunning of Denmark and Norway, 1939-1940; Conquest of the West, 1940; Sea Lion and the Battle of Britain, 1940; The End of the Third Reich -- Judgment at Nuremberg, 1945-1946; Index.