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...author of this admirable memoir began the 1930s as a journalistic adventurer of 26, jauntily evading an English blockade of the Khyber Pass to reach Afghanistan. By 1940 he regarded himself as middleaged, worn by work, fear and revulsion, after several years of broadcasting and writing from within the increasingly brutal world of Hitler's Germany...
Shirer has written other books about this period, notably Berlin Diary and The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, but the memoir form in this case offers far more than familiar material rechewed. This is his second book of reminiscence. The first, 20th Century Journey, published in 1976, had as its center a misty evocation of Paris in the '20s and was in some ways a familiar story worn by the telling...
TIME errs in its introduction to the Haig excerpts by stating that "not since another Secretary of State, James Byrnes, assailed Harry Truman's foreign policy in 1947 in his memoir, Speaking Frankly, has a senior Cabinet member published such an attack on a sitting Administration." I assisted Byrnes in writing the book. It is, on the contrary, an exposition and defense of the Truman policy before, as well as during, Byrnes' tenure as Secretary of State. Indeed, President Truman's cooperation was responsible for one of the most important sections of the book, on the communications...
...Others were for roles in The Apartment in 1960, Irma La Douce in 1963 and The Turning Point in 1977, and for producing a 1975 documentary, The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir...
Throughout his travelogue, Richler illuminates general truths with local anecdotes. A grieving memoir reveals the dark side of the immigrant experience and the author's love for his father: the lifelong failure who "came to Montreal as an in fant, his father fleeing Galicia. Pogroms. Rampaging Cossacks. But, striptease shows aside, the only theater my father relished, an annual outing for the two of us, was the appearance of the Don Cossack Choir at the St. Denis Theater. My father would stamp his feet to their lusty marching and drinking songs; his eyes would light up to see those...