The Fall of Berlin

Read, Anthony; Fisher, David

ISBN 10: 0393332411 / ISBN 13: 9780393332414

Editore: W. W. Norton & Company, 1993

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• Titolo: The Fall of Berlin
• Editore: W. W. Norton & Company
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0393332411
• ISBN 13: 9780393332414
• Rilegatura: paperback
• Condizione: New

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A narrative of the fall of Berlin chronicles the history of the city from the pomp and glitter of the 1936 OIympic games, through the rise of the Nazis and World War II, to the present. 15,000 first printing.

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The authors have delved into archival research, diaries, and memoirs, and conducted numerous interviews to recreate through brilliantly detailed vignettes the story of Berlin and its resilient inhabitants: the soldiers and ordinary citizens pounded by Allied bombing but maintaining their gallows humor; the endless procession of refugees; the 5,000 Jews who foiled the Nazi's rabid attempt to "purify" the capital; people like Dietrich Bonhoeffer who gave their lives in heroic anti-Nazi resistance while film stars and the well-connected lived in precarious luxury; the Third Reich's leaders jockeying for power in Hitler's underground bunker even as a ragged army of children, invalids, and old men confronted Soviet tanks in the rubble above; and of course, Hitler himself, trapped beneath a city he hated, waiting for the miracle promised him in horoscope readings. Not since Is Paris Burning? has a book so vividly evoked the daily struggle for survival and dignity in the nightmarish center of total war.