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625 pages The book is a first-hand account of the rise of Nazi Germany as witnessed by the William L. Shirer, a radio reporter for CBS. He covered Germany until the Nazi press censors made it impossible for him to report objectively to his listeners in the United States. Feeling increasingly uncomfortable, he left the country. The identities of many of Shirer's German sources were disguised to protect these people from retaliation by the German secret police.The book, originally published on June 20, 1941, almost six months before Germany declared war on the United States, was "the first attempt by a big-name American journalist to shed light on what was really happening in Nazi Germany.CBS radio broadcaster William L. Shirer was virtually unknown in 1940 when he decided there might be a book in the diary he had kept in Europe during the 1930s—specifically those sections dealing with the collapse of the European democracies and the rise of Nazi Germany.