Description
Sinclair McKay's portrait of Berlin from 1919 forward explores the city's broad human history, from the end of the Great War to the Blockade, rise of the Wall, and beyond.
Sinclair McKay's Berlin begins by taking readers back to 1919 when the city emerged from the shadows of the Great War to become an extraordinary by-word for modernity--in art, cinema, architecture, industry, science, and politics. He traces the city's history through the rise of Hitler and the Battle for Berlin which ended in the final conquest of the city in 1945. It was a key moment in modern world history, but beyond the global repercussions lay thousands of individual stories of agony. From the countless women who endured nightmare ordeals at the hands of the Soviet soldiers to the teenage boys fitted with steel helmets too big for their heads and guns too big for their hands, McKay thrusts readers into the human cataclysm that tore down the modernity of the streets and reduced what was once the most sophisticated city on earth to ruins.
Author: Sinclair McKay
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 08/23/2022
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.56lbs
Size: 9.52h x 6.46w x 1.63d
ISBN13: 9781250277503
ISBN10: 1250277507
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe | Germany
- History | Social History
- History | Wars & Conflicts | World War II | European Theater
About the Author
SINCLAIR MCKAY is a features writer for The Telegraph and The Mail on Sunday. He is also the acclaimed author of the bestselling The Secret Life of Bletchley Park and The Fire and the Darkness.