A Woman in Berlin - Hardcover

Anonymous

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1844081117 ISBN 13: 9781844081110

Publisher: Virago, 2005

Synopsis

Between April 20th and June 22nd of 1945 the anonymous author of A Woman in Berlin wrote about life within the falling city as it was sacked by the Russian Army. Fending off the boredom and deprivation of hiding, the author records her experiences, observations and meditations in this stark and vivid diary. Accounts of the bombing, the rapes, the rationing of food and the overwhelming terror of death are rendered in the dispassionate, though determinedly optimistic prose of a woman fighting for survival amidst the horror and inhumanity of war. 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. Newly translated into English, this diary has been unavailable since the 1960s. It is an astonishing and deeply affecting account of a woman fighting for survival amidst the horror and inhumanity of war.

About this title

About the Author:

The writer of this remarkable account was a German woman thought to have been a journalist or publisher.

Review:

'A Woman in Berlin is a war diary unlike any other. This is a victim's eye view, a woman's perspective of a terrifying onslaught on a civilian population, yet her account is characterised by its courage, its stunning intellectual honesty and by its uncommon powers of observation and perception. This book is one of the most important personal accounts ever written about the effects of war and defeat.' Antony Beevor

About this edition

• Publisher: Virago
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1844081117
• ISBN 13: 9781844081110
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320