Berlin

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In this book Giles MacDonogh shows Berlin in its various incarnations: the trading town, the royal residence, the garrison town, and the industrial city; the capital of the new German nation and the cosmopolitan city of the early twentieth century; the capital of the Third Reich; the divided city after 1945; and finally, Berlin as it is today. He paints a multifaceted picture, drawing from a wide range of sources that range from archives to the Berlin novel. Organized thematically and rich with anecdote, the book includes material on aspects of Berlin life as diverse as food, cafes, working life, architecture, crime, slang, education, theater, music, riots, assassins, and leisure time.