Gandhi: A Memoir presents William L. Shirer’s personal reflections on his encounters with Mahatma Gandhi and his impressions of Gandhi’s political and moral influence. Shirer, an American journalist covering India, shares his personal observations about Gandhi—from his simplicity and spiritual discipline to his brilliance in leading a nonviolent resistance against British imperialism. Shi…
Recalling his friendship and conversations with the late Indian leader, William Shirer presents a portrait of Gandhi that spotlights his frailties as well as his accomplishments. As a young foreign correspondent, William Shirer reported briefly on Gandhi'but the year was 1931, when India's struggle for independence peaked and Gandhi scored perhaps his greatest political success. The year before…
William Shirer, the acclaimed journalist whose "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" quickly became, and still remains, the standard work on Nazi Germany, was a masterful chronicler of the events in Europe that led up to World War II. ""This is Berlin"" gathers together two-and-a-half years worth of his daily CBS radio broadcasts that described the menacing steps Germany took toward World War …