{"product_id":"stay-alive-berlin-1939-1945-9780593654347-new","title":"Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Crisply told and uncomfortably relevant.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Exquisite.\" --\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[A] far-reaching and masterly work.\" --\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn astonishing account of life under a murderous regime amid a great city's descent into utter annihilation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuruma 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 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 \"\u003ci\u003eAuf wiedersehen\u003c\/i\u003e\" or \"\u003ci\u003eHeil Hitler\u003c\/i\u003e\" but \"\u003ci\u003eBleiben Sie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PENGUIN PR","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":51578618872098,"sku":"9780593654347-new","price":27.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/4755\/5618\/files\/9780593654347.jpg?v=1777410051","url":"https:\/\/www.albakireads.com\/products\/stay-alive-berlin-1939-1945-9780593654347-new","provider":"AlbakiReads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}