Fülszöveg
A remarkable
A Masterpiece
reconstruction of that immense and complicated battleground
filled with drama of ordinary people in the last days of a
dead or dying city, of a milkman watching to see if the picture
of Hitler disappears off the wall of a high Nazi official, of a
housewife wondering when she should set out her potato plants,
of a priest seeking the right words to tell 60 unworldly nuns that
they are in danger of being raped, of some of the 3,000 jews
who are still alive—incredibly—in secret hideouts, of an allied
spy shopping for delicacies with the Nazi elite and trying to find
out if Hitler is in Berlin " THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"The book's real power lies in the irony
it conveys, in the use of history not only to document the past
but to present a human spectacle raised to the nth power, in
which reason and unreason, folly and luck, stupidity and intelli-
gence, courage and cowardice rage back and forth in a mod-
ern arena." THE NEW YORK TIMES
"An...
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Fülszöveg
A remarkable
A Masterpiece
reconstruction of that immense and complicated battleground
filled with drama of ordinary people in the last days of a
dead or dying city, of a milkman watching to see if the picture
of Hitler disappears off the wall of a high Nazi official, of a
housewife wondering when she should set out her potato plants,
of a priest seeking the right words to tell 60 unworldly nuns that
they are in danger of being raped, of some of the 3,000 jews
who are still alive—incredibly—in secret hideouts, of an allied
spy shopping for delicacies with the Nazi elite and trying to find
out if Hitler is in Berlin " THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"The book's real power lies in the irony
it conveys, in the use of history not only to document the past
but to present a human spectacle raised to the nth power, in
which reason and unreason, folly and luck, stupidity and intelli-
gence, courage and cowardice rage back and forth in a mod-
ern arena." THE NEW YORK TIMES
"An extraordinary piece of work
Berlin and Berliners reeling, crumbling under Russian hammer-
blows. Suicide, cynicism, heroism—a mosaic of stories, anec-
dotes and drama as the city disintegrates. Superbly researched
and narrated." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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