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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): Poetry
- Era(s): 20th century
Berliners is a poem that originated from a conversation in Berlin. After several visits to Berlin, and a recent work assignment there with the German Film Academy, John Simmons became fascinated by the role of the city in 20th...
- 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)
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Úna has little over a week left to live and wants to see Berlin for the first and last time. Her friend Liam accompanies her. As the city streets open up to them, so too do their pasts. Úna...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe’s biggest issueRichard has spent his life as a university professor, immersed in the world of books and ideas, but now he is retired, his books remain in their packing...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
Discover the dark and decadent novella that inspired Cabaret. Set in the 1930s, Goodbye to Berlin evokes the glamour and sleaze, excess and repression of Berlin society. Isherwood shows the lives of people under threat from the rise of...
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