Woman in Berlin Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: a Diary

Name: Woman in Berlin Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: a Diary
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ISBN: 9780312426118

ISBN-10: 0312426119

ISBN-13: 9780312426118

Edition: 2005

Authors: Philip Boehm, Philip Boehm

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice nbsp; For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. "With bald honesty and brutal lyricism" (Elle), the anonymous author depicts her fellow Berliners in all their humanity, as well as their cravenness, corrupted first by hunger and then by the Russians. "Spare and unpredictable, minutely observed and utterly free of self-pity" (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland), A Woman in Berlin tells of the complex relationship between civilians and an occupying army and the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject--the mass…

Book details

List price: $20.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 7/11/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.15" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

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