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- 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): KwaZulu-Natal (Natal), Berlin, Cape Town
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
BERLIN. Agent Vicki Kahn is on her first foreign mission for the South African government, on the trail of an international child-trafficker. A complication she doesn’t need is that the President’s son is somewhere in the mix. When Vicki...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler’s Capital, 1939-45
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): WW2
The human face of Berlin and the inhabitants, well researched and a seering tribute to stoicism, courage and resourcefulness.
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
This is contemporary Berlin through the eyes of Tatiana, a young South American living in modern Berlin. The theme of connection/isolation and the transience of life is explored in beautiful prose
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1929
In “Children of Wrath” Willi Kraus tackles the case of the Kinderfresser, the vicious Child-Eater of Berlin. Turning the clock back two years from The Sleepwalkers, the story starts out in the fall of 1929, the last days of...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1943
It is 1943 – the height of the Second World War. With the men taken by the army, Berlin has become a city of women. And while her husband fights on the Eastern Front, Sigrid Schröder is, for all...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): WW2
BERLIN. JANUARY 1941. Evil cannot bring about good . . . After Germany’s invasion of Poland, the world is holding its breath and hoping for peace. At home, the Nazi Party’s hold on power is absolute. One freezing night,...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Children, Crime
- Era(s): Weimar
Emil Tischbein is the serious young hero of Erich Kästner’s children’s classic. His adventures on the streets of Weimar-era Berlin are the perfect introduction to the world of fictional crime detection. (The Independent)