Between April 20th and June 22nd of 1945 the anonymous author of A
Woman in Berlin wrote about life within the falling city as it was
sacked by the Russian Army. Fending off the boredom and deprivation
of hiding, the author records her experiences, observations and
meditations in this stark and vivid diary. Accounts of the bombing,
the rapes, the rationing of food and the overwhelming terror of
death are rendered in the dispassionate, though determinedly
optimistic prose of a woman fighting for survival amidst the horror
and inhumanity of war. This diary was first published in America in
1954 in an English translation and in Britain in 1955. A German
language edition was published five years later in Geneva and was
met with tremendous controversy. In 2003, over forty years later,
it was republished in Germany to critical acclaim - and more
controversy. This diary has been unavailable since the 1960s and is
now newly translated into English. A Woman in Berlin is an
astonishing and deeply affecting account.
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