Blogs in January 1970

The Berlin Stories 1st January 1970

Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés: marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers: dangerous, with its vice and intrigue: powerful and seedy, with its mobs and millionaires-this is the period when Hitler was beginning...

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The Girl in Berlin 1st January 1970

The Girl in Berlin Which side are you on? A novel about spies, lies and unearthing the truth. Summer 1951.The Cold War is at its height. Burgess and Maclean have just disappeared, and the nation is obsessed with the...

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