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Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital, 1939–45
Roger Moorhouse
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Description for Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital, 1939–45
Paperback. Portrays the German experience of the Second World War, not through an examination of grand politics, but from the viewpoint of the capital's streets and homes. This title provides a flavour of life in the capital, raises issues of consent and dissent, morality and authority and, above all, charts the violent humbling of a once-proud metropolis. Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 156 x 35. Weight in Grams: 454.
Berlin was the nerve-centre of Hitler's Germany - the backdrop for the most lavish ceremonies, it was also the venue for Albert Speer's plans to forge a new 'world metropolis' and the scene of the final climactic bid to defeat Nazism. Yet while our understanding of the Holocaust is well developed, we know little about everyday life in Nazi Germany.
In this vivid and important study Roger Moorhouse portrays the German experience of the Second World War, not through an examination of grand politics, but from the viewpoint of the capital's streets and homes.He gives a flavour of life in the capital, raises issues of consent and dissent, morality and authority and, above all, charts the violent humbling of a once-proud metropolis.
Shortlisted for the Hessell-Tiltman History Prize.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099551898
SKU
V9780099551898
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Ref
99-99
About Roger Moorhouse
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 Führer.
Reviews for Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital, 1939–45
Roger Moorhouse has a deep knowledge of Wartime Germany... Moorhouse has a nice eye for social detail
Max Hastings
Sunday Times
As a leading historian of modern Germany, Moorhouse has chronicled a largely unknown story with scholarship, narrative verve and, at times, an awful, harrowing immediacy
Ian Thompson
Sunday Telegraph
Moorhouse's evocative social history of Hitler's capital brings all these aromas together, along with the sights, sounds, thoughts and feelings of the ordinary Germans who lived here
Keith Lowe
Daily Telegraph
Few books on the war genuinely increase the sum of our collective knowledge of this exhaustively covered period, but this one does... By trawling through the complex, often deeply morally compromised personal stories of many survivors, Moorhouse has produced new insights into the way ordinary Berliners tried to escape the disastrous ill-fortune of living in the belly of the beast
Andrew Roberts
Financial Times
Roger Moorhouse's measured, sympathetic book offers a fascinating corrective to that Anglocentric perspective... After reading this thorough and engaging book you'll never be able to watch a war film or even a World Cup football match in quite the same way
James Delingpole
Daily Mail
It provides something rare: a popular history account that will satisfy both general readers and professional historians
Irish Times
Roger Moorhouse has marshalled an impressive range of primary sources including newspaper reports, official documents, memoirs, diaries and interviews with the dwindling band of survivors to create a gripping panorama of Berlin at war... Moorhouse's meticulous and painstaking research matched by his narrative verve, wide ranging sympathy and eye for telling detail
CJ Schuler
The Independent
A finely observed social history of Berliners during the war
Sunday Times
There is a haunting quality to Roger Moorhouse's Berlin at War, the ominous drumbeat of approaching nemesis for ordinary civilians who, since 1933, had witnessed and participated in the rise of the Nazi cult
Sinclair McKay
Daily Telegraph, Christmas round up
The searing experiences of Berliners are brought to life through often deeply morally compromised personal stories
Financial Times, Christmas round up
Max Hastings
Sunday Times
As a leading historian of modern Germany, Moorhouse has chronicled a largely unknown story with scholarship, narrative verve and, at times, an awful, harrowing immediacy
Ian Thompson
Sunday Telegraph
Moorhouse's evocative social history of Hitler's capital brings all these aromas together, along with the sights, sounds, thoughts and feelings of the ordinary Germans who lived here
Keith Lowe
Daily Telegraph
Few books on the war genuinely increase the sum of our collective knowledge of this exhaustively covered period, but this one does... By trawling through the complex, often deeply morally compromised personal stories of many survivors, Moorhouse has produced new insights into the way ordinary Berliners tried to escape the disastrous ill-fortune of living in the belly of the beast
Andrew Roberts
Financial Times
Roger Moorhouse's measured, sympathetic book offers a fascinating corrective to that Anglocentric perspective... After reading this thorough and engaging book you'll never be able to watch a war film or even a World Cup football match in quite the same way
James Delingpole
Daily Mail
It provides something rare: a popular history account that will satisfy both general readers and professional historians
Irish Times
Roger Moorhouse has marshalled an impressive range of primary sources including newspaper reports, official documents, memoirs, diaries and interviews with the dwindling band of survivors to create a gripping panorama of Berlin at war... Moorhouse's meticulous and painstaking research matched by his narrative verve, wide ranging sympathy and eye for telling detail
CJ Schuler
The Independent
A finely observed social history of Berliners during the war
Sunday Times
There is a haunting quality to Roger Moorhouse's Berlin at War, the ominous drumbeat of approaching nemesis for ordinary civilians who, since 1933, had witnessed and participated in the rise of the Nazi cult
Sinclair McKay
Daily Telegraph, Christmas round up
The searing experiences of Berliners are brought to life through often deeply morally compromised personal stories
Financial Times, Christmas round up