A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary by Anonymous

"The voice of anonymous emerges as both shrewd and funny... A fresh contribution to the literature of war." --entertainment weekly "one of the most important documents to emerge from world War II"*, a woman in Berlin raises from the rubble of post-war memory a riveting untold br>Chapter for eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian Army, a young woman kept a daily record of her apartment building and its little group of residents. "Spare and unpredictable, minutely observed and utterly free of self-pity,"** The anonymous author depicts her fellow berliners in all their humanity as well as their cravenness. And "with bald honesty and brutal lyricism"***, she tells of the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject. A woman in Berlin brings to light a requisite, and Long unavailable, classic of war literature. The new York Times Book review ** The plain dealer (Cleveland) *** Elle.

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