In Search of Berlin : The Story of a Reinvented City.
Kampfner, John
Historia, Berlin (Niemcy), Niemcy
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Author
Kampfner, John
Title
In Search of Berlin : The Story of a Reinvented City.
ISBN
978-1-83895-481-9 978-1-83895-481-9
Issue number
1st ed.
Volume
1 online resource (374 pages)
Additional information
Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Map of Berlin -- Cast of characters -- Introduction -- 1 Eight hundred years and one world house -- 2 Nobody’s palace -- 3 A very modern conflict -- 4 Les nouveaux Prussiens -- 5 The torments of hell -- 6 Sparta and Athens -- 7 Reformers and radicals -- 8 Finally, very rich -- 9 Sleeping in shifts -- 10 At the edge of my days -- 11 The city that cannot stop remembering -- 12 Subsidy city -- 13 Erich’s lamp shop -- 14 They came and never left -- 15 Back where the
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Berlin (Niemcy)
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Summary
No other city has had so many lives, survived so many disasters and has reinvented itself so many times. No other city is like Berlin. Ever since John Kampfner was a young journalist in Communist East Berlin, he hasn't been able to get the city out of his mind. It is a place tortured by its past, obsessed with memories, a place where traumas are unleashed and the traumatised have gathered. Over the past four years Kampfner has walked the length and breadth of Berlin, delving into the archives, a
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