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1989 The Berlin Wall (My Part in its Downfall)
- Location(s): Berlin, Germany
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1980s
1989: The Berlin Wall (My Part in its Downfall) It was an event that changed history, bringing the Cold War to a sudden, unexpected end and seeing the collapse not just of Communism but of the Soviet Union itself....
- Location(s): Berlin, Volgograd (Stalingrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2, mid 20th century
Desperate to escape the Eastern Front, Peter Faber, an ordinary German soldier, marries Katharina Spinell, a woman he has never met; it is a marriage of convenience that promises ‘honeymoon’ leave for him and a pension for her should...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2011
Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. Things have changed – no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler barely recognises his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run...
- Location(s): Berlin, Munich
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
An American expat in London, about to enter a meeting, takes a phone call. The caller is a German policewoman. The news she has to convey is almost incomprehensible: the man’s sister, Miriam, has been found dead in her...
111 Orte in Berlin, die man gesehen haben muss
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2000s
IN GERMAN ONLY. Kein Mensch kennt alle Geheimnisse dieser gigantischen Stadt. Neue Entdeckungen verraet ein Buch, das ein Trio junger Frauen unter Regie von Journalistin Lucia Jay von Seldeneck geschrieben hat. Es zeigt den Weg zu 111 unbekannten, skurrilen...
- Location(s): Berlin, Brittany, Ireland
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1938-41
April 1941. German bombers are in the air, about to attack Belfast. Oskar is a Luftwaffe conscript whose sweetheart, Elsa, was forced to flee Berlin for Ireland two years before. War-weary, he longs for escape. In remote Dunkerin, Kitty...
- Location(s): Berlin, Buenos Aires
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1930s, 1950s
The action switches largely between Berlin in 1932 – and Bernie’s last abandoned case as a police officer when the mutilated body of a spastic teenage girl is discovered – and Buenos Aires in 1950 where he is invited...
- Location(s): Berlin, Lisbon
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1940s and 1990s
Europe, 1941: Lisbon is one of the world’s tensest cities, and as the Nazis and Allies jostle for power, Iberia becomes a fulcrum for the menace that is about to engulf Europe. Klaus Felsen, torn from his Berlin factory...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): WW2
Between April 20th and June 22nd of 1945 the anonymous author of A Woman in Berlin wrote about life within the falling city as it was sacked by the Russian Army. Fending off the boredom and deprivation of hiding,...
- Location(s): Bavaria, Berlin, England, Pakistan
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s, 2000s
In previous novels, le Carré has delighted in taking us on a mystery tour. This time, the mystery is located in character more than plot. The absolute friends of the title are Ted Mundy and his East German friend,...
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