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Febuary's Smithsonian magazine has an article on journalist & Coe grad William L. Shirer (’25), marking the 50^th anniversary of his most notable book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (which won the National Book Award 1960).  Shirer became well known as a correspondent covering Mahatma Gandhi and India’s independence movement and for his broadcasts from Berlin during World War II. His book Berlin Diary, is based on his personal journals he kept while on assignment and were smuggled out of Nazi Germany.  In addition to these three titles he published a number of other books, including The Nightmare Years which was made into a movie (which we have in AV). Check out the article, the movie and then come down and talk to Sara about the William Shirer collection in the archives.