Berlin at War

Name: Berlin at War
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ISBN: 9780465028559

ISBN-10: 0465028551

ISBN-13: 9780465028559

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Authors: Roger Moorhouse

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Berlin was the city at the very center of World War Two. It was the launching pad for Hitler’s empire, the embodiment of his vision of a “world metropolis.” Berlin was also the place where Hitler’s Reich would ultimately fall. Berlin suffered more air raids than any other German city and endured the full force of a Soviet siege.InBerlin at War, historian Roger Moorhouse uses diaries, memoirs, and interviews to provide a searing first-hand account of life and death in the Nazi capital—the privations, the hopes and fears, and the nonconformist tradition that saw some Berliners provide underground succour to the city’s remaining Jews. Combining comprehensive research with gripping…

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List price: $25.99
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 4/3/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Roger Moorhouse is an historian and author specialising in modern German history. He is the co-author, with Norman Davies, of Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City, and the author of Killing Hitler: The Third Reich and the Plots Against the Fuhrer.



Maps


List of Illustrations


Acknowledgements


Introduction


Prologue: 'Fï¿½hrerweather'



Faith in the Fï¿½hrer



A Deadly Necessity



A Guarded Optimism



Marching on their Stomachs



Brutality Made Stone



Unwelcome Strangers



A Taste of Things to Come



Into Oblivion



An Evil Cradling



The People's Friend



The Watchers and the Watched



The Persistent Shadow



Enemies of the State



Against All Odds



Reaping the Whirlwind



To Unreason and Beyond



Ghost Town


Epilogue: Hope


Notes


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Index