A Woman in Berlin

Zusatztext one of the most powerful books I've ever read...the best money you'll ever spend Informationen zum Autor Author! now dead! is thought to have been a journalist or publisher. Klappentext A startling account of a German survivor of the Second World War! describing the effects of war and defeat. Zusammenfassung Between April 20th and June 22nd of 1945 the anonymous author of A Woman in Berlin wrote about life within the falling city as it was sacked by the Russian Army. Fending off the boredom and deprivation of hiding! the author records her experiences! observations and meditations in this stark and vivid diary. Accounts of the bombing! the rapes! the rationing of food and the overwhelming terror of death are rendered in the dispassionate! though determinedly optimistic prose of a woman fighting for survival amidst the horror and inhumanity of war. This diary was first published in America in 1954 in an English translation and in Britain in 1955. A German language edition was published five years later in Geneva and was met with tremendous controversy. In 2003! over forty years later! it was republished in Germany to critical acclaim - and more controversy. This diary has been unavailable since the 1960s and is now newly translated into English. A Woman in Berlin is an astonishing and deeply affecting account.

Product details

• Authors: Anonymous
• Assisted by: Antony Beevor (Introduction), Philip Böhm (Translation)
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.03.2006
• EAN: 9781844081127
• ISBN: 978-1-84408-112-7
• No. of pages: 311
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Virago Paperbacks; Virago Press; Virago Paperbacks
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Berlin : Belletristik (Romane, Erzählungen)