A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary

A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
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Author: Anonymous
Translator: Philip Boehm
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-07-11
ISBN: 0312426119
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Picador

Book Reviews of A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary

Book Review: Moving and Raw
Summary: 5 Stars

I no more got through the first chapter and knew that this was going to be a great read. The writing is effortlessly fluid and descriptive. The story is supposedly the memoir of a German women living in Berlin during War World II (the last part of WWII). She talks of her struggles to stay alive. As I mentioned before the book is incredibly depictive, and there for stirring at times. She does what she has to in order to keep food in her belly, a roof over her head, and clothes on her back - which includes befriending and bedding several Russians. This book is not for the faint of heart - she goes into detail about the violence, rape, and abuse that took place during the end of the war in Berlin. I found the book to be educational and a deferent point of view on WWII.

Summary of A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary


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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. "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. "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.

A Woman in Berlin stands as "one of the essential books for understanding war and life" (A. S. Byatt, author of Possession).

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