A woman in Berlin : diary 20 April 1945

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A woman in Berlin : diary 20 April 1945 - 22 June 1945

Title:

A woman in Berlin : diary 20 April 1945 - 22 June 1945

Author:

Boehm, Philip.

ISBN:

9781844081110

Publication Information:

London : Virago/Time Warner Book Group UK, 2005.

Physical Description:

311 p. ; 23 cm.

General Note:

Introduction by Antony Beevor., afterword by Hans Magnus Enzensberger.

This diary was first published in America in 1954 in an English translation and in Britain in 1955. A German language edition was published five years later in Geneva and was met with tremendous controversy. In 2003, over forty years later it was republished in Germany to critical acclaim - and more controversy.

Abstract:

Begun on the day when Berlin first saw the face of war until 22nd June 1945, the anonymous author describes life within the falling city as it was sacked by the Russian Army. This is an astonishing and deeply affecting account of a woman fighting for survival amidst the horror and inhumanity of war.

Subject Term:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, German.

Diaries -- Women authors.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Berlin.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Women.

Added Author:

Boehm, Philip.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus.

Beevor, Antony.

Copies:

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In 'A Woman in Berlin', accounts of the bombing, the rapes, the rationing of food and the overwhelming terror of death during Berlin's fall to the Red Army are rendered in the dispassionate, yet determinedly optimistic prose of a woman fighting for survival amidst the horror and inhumanity of war.