berlin

Discusses aspects of Berlin's society from its founding in the thirteenth century to the present.

Drawing from the archives of six nations, this history of the siege and fall of Berlin in 1945 describes life in the city at its bleakest hour.

Willi Kraus, a Jewish detective in the Weimar Republic in 1932, begins investigating the disappearance of beautiful girls in Berlin, a case that leads him into the depraved upper echelons of the Nazi party.

The author tells of her experiences in wartime Berlin.

A collection of impressionistic and political essays by German journalist Joseph Roth which reflect on the violent social and political factors which threatened the Weimar Republic from 1920 to 1933.

The true story of a young German girl, Mercedes Simon, and of the American pilot, Gail Halvorsen, who shared hope and joy with the children of West Berlin by dropping candy-filled parachutes during the Airlift.

Based on the true story of Elise and Otto Hampel, a working-class couple who defied the Third Reich, tells a story of Otto and Anna Quangel who launch a personal resistance campaign against the Gestapo after their only son is killed at the front.

The author, an antireligious Jew, tells the story of his youth in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1939, discussing his feelings toward Germany and the Germans, the relatively benign early years of the Nazi regime, and his last months in the country before emigrating with his family.

Povides an insider's account of espionage maneuvers in Berlin between America's CIA and Russia's KGB from 1945 to the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961.