Author:William L Shirer
Before Britain and Germany went to war in 1939, Ed Murrow of CBS sent his star reporter William Shirer to report from Berlin on what was really happening in Hitler's Germany. And there Shirer stayed until December 1940, reporting on the war from within the Reich, battling against the censors and revealing to American and British audiences how Hitler, the SS, and his armed forces were conducting the war, and what it meant to live in a Nazi state. All through the campaigns leading to the fall of France, Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain, Shirer provided a unique and dramatic by-line on history as it happened, and now his writings have been gathered together for the first time into a vivid, compelling and urgent narrative, one of the great first-hand documents of the Second World War.
Exceptional... A worthy addition to vibrant classics of small-unit history like Stephen Ambrose’s Band of Brothers.
—— Wall Street JournalGripping… Kershaw has produced another gem, with vivid combat scenes and an admirable character in the leading role.
—— ExpressA poignant war story that culminates in the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp of Dachau… [A] fast-paced examination of a dedicated officer navigating – and somehow surviving – World War II.
—— Washington PostAbsorbing and beautifully written ... The story of this particular weapon becomes in an important sense the story of the violence and threat at the heart of the more than sixty years since the gun was first introduced
—— Richard OveryChivers is a first-rate war correspondent and a prodigious researcher ... The Gun is likely to become the standard account of the world's standard assault rifle
—— Max Boot , New York Times Book ReviewChivers's mastery of history and engineering is matched by his mastery of language ... The Gun is a riveting read
—— Raymond Bonner , GuardianChivers tells the story well ... [he is] superb on the technical history of the AK-47 and its predecessors, but he also strikingly underlines its human cost as well as weaving adeptly through the propaganda
—— Tim Newark , Financial TimesA formidable feat of research and writing ... he has produced surely the final word on one of the most iconic weapons of our times
—— Roger Moorhouse , Independent on SundayChivers is admirably meticulous in his research
—— Justin Marozzi , Telegraph
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