A Century Of Berlin
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Berlin
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Author : Sinclair McKay
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2022-05-26
Berlin written by Sinclair McKay and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-26 with History categories.
The Sunday Times-bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - Berlin 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. Berlin tells the story of the city as seen through the eyes not of its rulers, but of those who walked its streets. In this magisterial biography of a city and its inhabitants, bestselling historian Sinclair McKay sheds new light on well-known characters - from idealistic scientist Albert Einstein to Nazi architect Albert Speer - and draws on never-before-seen first-person accounts to introduce us to people of all walks of Berlin life. For example, we meet office worker Mechtild Evers, who in her efforts to escape an oncoming army runs into even more appalling jeopardy, and Reinhart Cruger, a 12-year-old boy in 1941 who witnesses with horror the Gestapo coming for each of his Jewish neighbours in turn. Ever a city of curious contrasts, moments of unbelievable darkness give way to a wry Berliner humour - from banned perms to the often ridiculous tit-for-tat between East and West Berlin - and moments of joyous hope - like forced labourers at a jam factory warmly welcoming their Soviet liberators. How did those ideologies - fascism and communism - come to flower so fully here? And how did their repercussions continue to be felt throughout Europe and the West right up until that extraordinary night in the autumn of 1989 when the Wall - that final expression of totalitarian oppression - was at last breached? You cannot understand the twentieth century without understanding Berlin; and you cannot understand Berlin without understanding the experiences of its people. Drawing on a staggering breadth of culture - from art to film, opera to literature, science to architecture - McKay's latest masterpiece shows us this hypnotic city as never before. 'Remarkable . . . A majestic work of non-fiction' Matthew d'Ancona 'Sinclair McKay was born to write this book' David Aaronovitch, The Times 'A masterful account of a city marked by infamy . . . If there is a book that must be read this year, this is it' Amanda Foreman 'An electrifying new account of Berlin' Julia Boyd, author of Travellers in the Third Reich 'One of my favourite historians' Dan Snow
A Century Of Berlin
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
A Century Of Berlin written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Berlin porcelain categories.
A Century Of Berlin
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Author : Christie, Manson & Woods
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
A Century Of Berlin written by Christie, Manson & Woods and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Art categories.
Berlin In The Twentieth Century
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Author : Andrew Webber
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2008-09-25
Berlin In The Twentieth Century written by Andrew Webber and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-25 with Art categories.
An original study of Berlin as a central theme in literature and film, reflecting its troubled but creative past.
Reading Berlin 1900
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Author : Peter FRITZSCHE
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
Reading Berlin 1900 written by Peter FRITZSCHE and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with History categories.
In this study of the newspaper page, Fritzsche analyzes how reading & writing dramatized Imperial Berlin & anticipated the modernist sensibility that celebrated discontinuity, instability, & transience.
Berlin
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Author : Rory MacLean
language : en
Publisher: Picador
Release Date : 2015-10-13
Berlin written by Rory MacLean and has been published by Picador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-13 with History categories.
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year Berlin is a city of fragments and ghosts, a laboratory of ideas, the fount of both the brightest and darkest designs of history's most bloody century. The once arrogant capital of Europe was devastated by Allied bombs, divided by the Wall, then reunited and reborn as one of the creative centers of the world. Today it resonates with the echo of lives lived. No other city has repeatedly been so powerful and fallen so low; few other cities have been so shaped and defined by individual imaginations. Berlin tells the volatile history of Europe's capital over five centuries through a series of intimate portraits of two dozen key residents: the medieval balladeer whose suffering explains the Nazis' rise to power; the genius Jewish chemist who invented poison gas for First World War battlefields and then the death camps; the iconic mythmakers like Christopher Isherwood, Leni Riefenstahl, and David Bowie, whose heated visions are now as real as the city's bricks and mortar. Alongside are portrayed some of the countless ordinary Berliners whose lives can only be imagined: the ambitious prostitute who refashioned herself as a baroness, the fearful Communist Party functionary who helped to build the Wall, and the American spy from the Midwest whose patriotism may have turned the course of the Cold War. Berlin is a history book like no other, with an originality that reflects the nature of the city itself. In its architecture, through its literature, in its movies and songs, Berliners have conjured their hard capital into a place of fantastic human fantasy. No other city has so often surrendered itself to its own seductive myths. Berlin captures, portrays, and propagates the remarkable story of those myths and their makers.
Berlin For Jews
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Author : Leonard Barkan
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2016-11-04
Berlin For Jews written by Leonard Barkan and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Intro -- Contents -- Prologue: Me and Berlin -- 1. Places: Schönhauser Allee -- 2. Places: Bayerisches Viertel -- 3. People: Rahel Varnhagen -- 4. People: James Simon -- 5. People: Walter Benjamin -- Epilogue: Recollections, Reconstructions -- Acknowledgments -- Suggestions for Further Reading.
Tales Of Berlin In American Literature Up To The 21st Century
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Author : Joshua Parker
language : en
Publisher: Spatial Practices
Release Date : 2016
Tales Of Berlin In American Literature Up To The 21st Century written by Joshua Parker and has been published by Spatial Practices this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Literary Criticism categories.
Prologue: "a smaller but more intense orchestration" -- American space -- American Berlin across three centuries -- A tale of Berlin -- How American is it -- Toy houses and playing-card lawns -- "German" roots -- Rags, riches and rooming houses -- G the great divorce -- Water crossings -- N "this is our armageddon" -- Ruined landscapes, ruined women -- Women with attachments: mermaids, drink and drowning -- City of night -- "Certain tendencies": queer berlin -- Underground berlin -- "Something was different, but nothing had changed" -- Contaminating city -- Contents -- Just off the kurfurstendamm: spy fiction -- The garden and the forest: natural space in Berlin -- The weather in Berlin -- Isolating Berlin -- Naturalizing the wall -- Escape from Berlin -- Family reunions: searching for someone in Berlin -- Women and children first: taming history -- Contemporary voices: re-storing mythologies -- Conclusion.
Berlin
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Author : David Clay Large
language : en
Publisher: Allan Lane
Release Date : 2001
Berlin written by David Clay Large and has been published by Allan Lane this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Berlin (Germany) categories.
A narrative history of one of the 20th century's most loved-and unloved-cities, Berlin is as vibrant, and colourful as the great German metropolis itself. In the political history of the past century, no city has played a more prominent-though often disastrous-role than Berlin. At the same time, Berlin has also been a dynamic centre of artistic and intellectual innovation. If Paris was the Capital of the Nineteenth Century, Berlin was to become the signature city for the next hundred years. Once a symbol of modernity, in the 1930s it became associated with injustice and the abuse of power. After 1945, it became the iconic city of the cold war. Since the fall of the Wall, Berlin has again come to represent humanity's aspirations for a new beginning, tempered by caution deriving from the traumas of the recent past. David Clay Large's history of Berlin is framed by the two German unifications of 1871 and 1990.
The German Century
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Author : Michael Stürmer
language : en
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited
Release Date : 1999-01-01
The German Century written by Michael Stürmer and has been published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Germany categories.
For the best part of the 20th century, Germany has either united the world in anger or driven it apart. Its late appearance on the European scene in 1871 might have been expected it to keep it in the second rank, but it was soon apparent that Germany's first unification, in the 19th century, was a greater event than the French Revolution. Germany has operated on a cycle: from the greatness of the Prussian state to the depths of World War I and its aftermath; from the rise of Hitler, determined to take Germany to greatness again, to the division of the country by the victorious Allies after World War II; and then the fall of the Berlin Wall and the ending of the Cold War. These images provide a photo-journalistic history of Germany, from the rise of Prussia, through the two world wars and the fall of the Berlin Wall to reunification.