Sense of Place Stars: Berlin

Fiction and Nonfiction titles about Berlin. Many titles are focused on the WWII era. Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

 

Fiction

  • Garden of Beasts: A Novel of Berlin 1936
    Author: Deaver, Jeffrey
    Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 24.95 ISBN: 0743222016 Date: 2004
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    Called the reigning "master of ticking-bomb suspense" (People), Deaver has written a gripping international thriller--with a range of real political figures and Olympic athletes--that introduces his most psychologically complex hero to date.
    Suggested Reading: World War Stars | Adult Books for Teens | Historical Crime Fiction Stars
    Updated 5.20.04
  • The Good German
    Author: Kanon, Joseph
    Publisher: Holt $ 26 ISBN: 0805064222 Date: 2001
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    Set in Berlin in 1945, a brilliant thriller about the end of one war and the beginning of another is offered by the bestselling author of Los Alamos.
    Sugggested Reading List: World War Fiction
    Updated 8/1/01
  • The Pieces from Berlin
    Author: Pye, Michael
    Publisher: Knopf $ 24 ISBN: 0375414363 Date: 2003
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    From the author of Taking Lives comes a riveting new novel, inspired by an actual historical figure, about a woman who made a fortune trafficking stolen art in wartime Berlin, and the terrible emotional consequences of her crimes.
    Suggested Reading: Art Stars
    Updated 12.02.02
  • Rosa
    Author: Rabb, Jonathan
    Publisher: Crown $ 24.95 ISBN: 1400049210 Date: 2005
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    From the bestselling author of The Overseer comes a riveting historical mystery about a German police inspector in post-World War I, post-Revolution Berlin, who stumbles upon the body of famed social activist Rosa Luxemburg and a conspiracy involving the highest levels of the new National Socialist government and the political police. - Publisher Marketing.
    Suggested Reading: Historical Crime Fiction Stars
    Updated 12.6.04
  • The End of War: A Novel of the Race for Berlin
    Author: Robbins, David L.
    Publisher: Bantam $ 24.95 ISBN: 0553108301 Date: 2000
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    The bestselling author of War of the Rats now forges a masterpiece out of the flames of history. In the trenches of Eastern Europe, in the bomb-ravaged halls of Berlin, and along the speeding Western front, millions wage a war whose victors will rule the latter half of the 20th century. Between the Russian marshal and the British prime minister sits the dying American president who plays each leader against the other, seeking victory, seeking peace.
    Suggested Reading: World Wars Stars | Berlin Stars
    Updated 6/22/00

Nonfiction

  • A Woman in Berlin: Six Weeks in the Conquered City
    Author: Anonymous
    Publisher: Metropolitan $ 23 ISBN: 0805075402 Date: 2005
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    With shocking and vivid detail, the journal of a woman living through the Russian occupation of Berlin in 1945 tells of the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject and describes the common experience of millions.
    Updated 6.9.05
  • The Fall of Berlin 1945
    Author: Beevor, Antony
    Publisher: Viking $ 29.95 ISBN: 0670030414 Date: 2002
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    Acclaimed for his vivid re-creations of some of the 20th century's most significant battles, Beevor now offers a gripping, street-level portrait of the harrowing days of January 1945 in Berlin when the vengeful Red Army and beleaguered Nazi forces clashed for a final time.
    Updated 4.2.02
  • Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich
    Author: Owings, Alison
    Publisher: Rutgers $ 45 ISBN: 0813519926 Date: 1993
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    Twenty-nine German women recall memories of the Third Reich. What they have to say will surprise Americans, just as they surprised the women themselves. Not since Marcel Ophuls' controversial film The Sorrow and the Pity have we been on such intimate terms with "the enemy".
    Updated 7.25.05
  • Let Me Go
    Author: Schneider, Helga
    Publisher: Walker $ 19 ISBN: 0802714358 Date: 2004
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    In this extraordinary memoir, a daughter's sense of obligation collides with inescapable horror when she discovers that her mother abandoned her in 1941 Berlin to become a guard in Nazi concentration camps.
    Suggested Reading: Memoir Stars
    Updated 4.21.04
  • Stella: One Woman's True Tale of Evil, Betrayal, and Survival in Hitler's Germany
    Author: Wyden, Peter
    Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 23 ISBN: 0671673610 Date: 1992
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    In all of Holocaust literature there has never been another book like this: Haunting, deeply personal, as exciting as a spy novel, it is a non-fiction Sophie's Choice. Stella Goldschlag was blond, beautiful, and seductive, but she was also Jewish, and in World War II Germany, that could be fatal. But somehow she was transformed into a tool of the Gestapo, a collaborator in Hitler's "Final Solution". Now one of her childhood friends finds out how, and why.
    Updated 8.2.05