For Eight Weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young Woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents.
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A Woman in Berlin stands as one of the essential books for understanding war and life (A.
Spare and unpredictable, minutely observed and utterly free of self-pity ( The Plain Dealer, Cleveland), A Woman in Berlin tells of the complex relationship between civilians and an occupying army and the shameful indignities to which women in a Conquered city are always subject--the mass rape suffered by all, regardless of age or infirmity.
With bald honesty and brutal lyricism ( Elle ), the Anonymous author depicts her fellow Berliners in all their humanity, as well as their cravenness, corrupted first by hunger and then by the Russians.
A New York Times Book Review Editors\' Choice For Eight Weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young Woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents.
She tells of the shameful indignities to which women in a Conquered city are always subject.
For Eight Weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young Woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents
