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historical books about Germany / Berlin

The waveguide

The waveguide

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Hi,

I read a book by Amos Elon "The pity of it All" set in Germany between a bit before the WWI and untill the WWII. The book was really great.

I am interested in more books about Germany (history or historical fiction) set in the same time period (a bit before WWI and untill WWII), and if it is set in Berlin or Dresden areas it is even more exciting for me. Any suggestions? I would be very greatful!
 
The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood and
Before the Deluge, A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s by Otto Friedrich

Oh, and Weimar Culture, the Outsider as Insider by Peter Gay
 
pontalba said:
The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood and
Before the Deluge, A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s by Otto Friedrich

Oh, and Weimar Culture, the Outsider as Insider by Peter Gay
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Is this the same Peter Gay who was killed five years ago today?
 
Not sure. He also wrote, wait a moment, I'll quote from the back of this book.
Peter Gay's other books include the best-selling Freud: A Life for Our Time, the magisterial Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, the award-winning The Enlightenment, and most recently, Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture, 1815-1914, all published by Norton.
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I'd mostly purchased Weimar Culture as research on the time frame of Nabokov in Berlin in the 20's and 30's.
 
Thanks!

Thank you all!
I will try those!

BTW, I did not know that it was also the time of Nabokov in Berlin which makes it even a more exciting time to read about! What led me to read about this time period (beginning of 20 century in Berlin) was also a book by Alfred Doeblin, "Berlin Alexanderplatz". Back at school we studied this period as a German Depression Time, but in "Berlin Alexanderplatz" it seems that people were quite OK then and most of their free time they spent sitting in bars and drinking beer. Not much different from what they are doing today though... Then they were complaining about the WWI and politics and today they do the same, still complaining - but about a bit different things.
 
Five Past Midnight by James Thayer is about an American POW whose mission it is to assassinate Hitler. Also Robert Harris' Fatherland is a suspense thriller about what might have happened if Germany had won WWII. I really like it.

The only other book that I can think of now is Adelaide of Brunswick by the Marquis de Sade (yet it's not the world wars period obviously), but once I log offline, I'm sure that more may come to me.
 
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