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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 ... Read more
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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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more