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Author:
Moorhouse, Roger.
Title:
Berlin at war / Roger Moorhouse.
Edition:
1st pbk. ed.
Publisher:
Basic Books,
Copyright Date:
2012, c2010
Description:
xviii, 432 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
World War, 1939-1945--Berlin.--Berlin.
Berlin (Germany)--History--1918-1945.
Berlin (Germany)--Social conditions--20th century.
World War, 1939-1945--Berlin (Germany)
Berlin (Germany)--History.
Berlin (Germany)--Social conditions.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-421) and index.
Contents:
Prologue : 'Führerweather' -- Faith in the Führer -- 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.
Summary:
Berlin was at the very center of the Second World War. Uses diaries, memoirs, and interviews to provide a searing first-hand account of life, death, and chaos in the Nazi capital.
Indexed by:
Publisher's Weekly, August 2010
Kirkus Starred, July 2010
Choice, July 2011
Publisher's Weekly
Kirkus Starred
Choice
ISBN:
0465028551
9780465028559 (pbk.)
Locations:
DFPC353 -- Ackley Public Library (Ackley)

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