Berlin: Life and Loss in the City That Shaped the Century by Sinclair McKay #literature

Berlin: Life and Loss in the City That Shaped the Century by Sinclair McKay #literatureThe Sunday Times bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century Berlin Throughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world. This history is often viewed as separate acts: the suffering of the First World War, the cosmopolitan city of science, culture and sexual freedom Berlin became, steep economic plunges, the rise of the Nazis, the destruction of the

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'Spellbinding' GuardianThe world-renowned historian and intellectual Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges

Composed during the Second World War

PaperbackPublication: 5 Mar 2007

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the division between Whig and Tory marked the chief political battlelines of a ferociously polarised country for several tumultuous generations

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PaperbackPublication: 17 Apr 2025

Twelve years later the family are no nearer to uncovering the truth of what happened to him