Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945
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Book Overview "Crisply told and uncomfortably relevant." --The New York Times Book Review"Exquisite." --Wall Street Journal"[A] far-reaching and master...
"Crisply told and uncomfortably relevant." --The New York Times Book Review
"Exquisite." --Wall Street Journal
"[A] far-reaching and masterly work." --Library Journal (starred review)
An astonishing account of life under a murderous regime amid a great city's descent into utter annihilation
In 1939, when Ian Buruma's epic opens, Berlin has been under Nazi rule for six years, and its 4.3 million people have made their accommodations to the regime, more or less. When war broke out with Poland in September, what was most striking at first was how little changed. Unless you were Jewish. Then life, already hard, was soon to get unfathomably worse.
Buruma gives tender attention to the Jewish experience in Berlin during the war, weaving its thread into the broader fabric of this marvelously rich and vivid mosaic of urban life. The distillation of a broad-gauged reckoning with a vast trove of primary sources, including a surprising number of interviews with living survivors, the book is a study in extremes--depravity and resilience, moral blindness and moral courage, pious bigotry and unchecked hedonism.
By 1943, with the German defeat at Stalingrad, ordinary life in Berlin would acquire an increasingly desperate cast. The last three years of the war in Berlin are truly a descent into hell, with a deranged regime in desperate free fall, an increasingly relentless pounding from Allied bombers, and the mounting dread of the approaching Soviet army. The common greeting of Berliners was now not "Auf wiedersehen" or "Heil Hitler" but "Bleiben Sie
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Pages: 400 | Language: English | Publisher: PENGUIN PR | ISBN: 059365434X
FormatHardcover
Pages400
LanguageEnglish
ISBN059365434X
EAN9780593654347
PublisherPENGUIN PR
Publication Date2026-03-17
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight1.15 Pounds
Length9.38 Inches
Width6.15 Inches
Height1.51 Inches
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