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A Woman in Berlin

A Woman in Berlin
  • Author(s): Anonymous
  • 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,...

Agents of the State

Agents of the State
  • Author(s): Mike Nicol
  • 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...

Alone in Berlin

Alone in Berlin
  • Author(s): Hans Fallada
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

American Assassin

American Assassin
  • Author(s): Vince Flynn
  • Location(s): Germany, Istanbul (Constantinople), Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

What type of man is willing to kill for his country without putting on a uniform? Six months ago, Mitch Rapp was just an ordinary college student. Then the Pan Am Lockerbie terrorist attack stole the lives of two...

Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler’s Capital, 1939-45

Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler’s Capital, 1939-45
  • Author(s): Roger Moorhouse
  • 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.

Book of Clouds

Book of Clouds
  • Author(s): Chloe Aridjis
  • 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

Brandenburg

Brandenburg
  • Author(s): Henry Porter
  • Location(s): Eastern Europe, Germany
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

The Stasi was among the most sophisticated intelligence organisations in the world, but by the end of the 1980s the Orwellian state of East Germany was collapsing around it. The special squads of armed officers, the torture chambers in...

Brother Grimm

Brother Grimm
  • Author(s): Craig Russell
  • Location(s): Hamburg
  • Genre(s): Crime

A girl’s body lies, posed, on the pale sand of a Hamburg beach, a message concealed in her hand. ‘I have been underground, and now it is time for me to return home…’ Jan Fabel, of the Hamburg murder...

Children of Wrath

Children of Wrath
  • Author(s): Paul Grossman
  • 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...

City of Women

City of Women
  • Author(s): David Gillham
  • 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...

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