Reading this one now.
http://www.amazon.com/Murrow-Life-Times-M-Sperber/dp/0881910082
Murrow: His Life and Times (Hardcover)
Quite a bit about Shirer in it.
I believe it. Looks like a good read too. My reading list had grown exponentially since we have started this. What’s worse is I cant really get to it since right now I’m already reading 7 books simultaneously for my masters. I’m hoping to get some pleasure reading done come December.
I just finished up “Midway” by Mitsuo Fuchida and Masatake Okumiya last night and I highly recommend it if you want a glimpse into the Japanese perspective on that battle. I also wrote a book review yesterday on “The American Civil War and the Origins of Modern Warfare” by Edward Hagerman. Not very relevant for our WWII discussions by I will say that you can see the genesis of trench warfare and specifically holding and turning maneuvers that were prominent in WWI (Though I think the Europeans probably learned more from Moltke and the Franco Prussian War than from the American Civil War). That book also covers the birth of the Signal Corps which will be very important in WWII. My only criticism of the book was it spent way too much time on supply statistics.