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Shirer wrote a sequel to the diary in 1947 , ''End of a Berlin Diary'' (ISBN 1568494289), which is generally considered to be a lesser work. Certainly the coverage of Germany in the aftermath of the Third Reich and the war's destruction is less spellbinding than the original ''Berlin Diary'''s coverage of the political events during the early years of the Third Reich and the German military triumphs during the war's first year.

In the sequel, Shirer returns to a shattered Berlin and, among other interesting events, has a chance meeting with a Russian soldier who'd read the author's translated diary in the trenches near Stalingrad . The book includes many captured Nazi documents relating to the war and Nazi atrocities, many of which were uncovered for the prosecution of the Nuremberg Trial , which Shirer also covers in the sequel.

In 2001 a compilation of Shirer's CBS broadcasts from Europe, called ''This Is Berlin: Reporting from Nazi Germany, 1938-40'' (ISBN 1585672793) was published.