Berlin Av Sinclair Mckay

<p><b>The <i>Sunday Times-</i>bestselling author of <i>Dresden</i> returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - Berlin</b><br><br><b>''I loved this book . . . apposite and wise . . . To anyone who knows Berlin a little and is fascinated by it, but would like to understand it better, this is a wonderful aid'' David Aaronovitch, </b><i><b>The Times</b></i><br><br>Throughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world. This history is often viewed as separate acts: the suffering of the First World War, the cosmopolitan city of science, culture and sexual freedom Berlin became, steep economic plunges, the rise of the Nazis, the destruction of the Second World War, the psychosis of genocide, and a city rent in two by competing ideologies. But people do not live their lives in fixed eras. An epoch ends, yet the people continue - or try to continue - much as they did before. <i>Berlin</i> tells the story of the city as seen t

Pris: kr 239.00 fra Norli