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A fascinating portrayal of the German experience during the Second World War told through the eyes of the citizens of Berlin

About the Author

Roger Moorhouse is an historian and author specialising in modern German history. He is the co-author, with Norman Davies, of Microcosm- Portrait of a Central European City, and the author of Killing Hitler- The Third Reich and the Plots Against the F hrer.

Reviews

Roger Moorhouse has a deep knowledge of Wartime Germany... Moorhouse has a nice eye for social detail
*Sunday Times*

As a leading historian of modern Germany, Moorhouse has chronicled a largely unknown story with scholarship, narrative verve and, at times, an awful, harrowing immediacy
*Sunday Telegraph*

Moorhouse's evocative social history of Hitler's capital brings all these aromas together, along with the sights, sounds, thoughts and feelings of the ordinary Germans who lived here
*Daily Telegraph*

Few books on the war genuinely increase the sum of our collective knowledge of this exhaustively covered period, but this one does... By trawling through the complex, often deeply morally compromised personal stories of many survivors, Moorhouse has produced new insights into the way ordinary Berliners tried to escape the disastrous ill-fortune of living in the belly of the beast
*Financial Times*

Roger Moorhouse's measured, sympathetic book offers a fascinating corrective to that Anglocentric perspective... After reading this thorough and engaging book you'll never be able to watch a war film or even a World Cup football match in quite the same way
*Daily Mail*

It provides something rare: a popular history account that will satisfy both general readers and professional historians
*Irish Times*

Roger Moorhouse has marshalled an impressive range of primary sources including newspaper reports, official documents, memoirs, diaries and interviews with the dwindling band of survivors to create a gripping panorama of Berlin at war... Moorhouse's meticulous and painstaking research matched by his narrative verve, wide ranging sympathy and eye for telling detail
*The Independent*

A finely observed social history of Berliners during the war
*Sunday Times*

There is a haunting quality to Roger Moorhouse's Berlin at War, the ominous drumbeat of approaching nemesis for ordinary civilians who, since 1933, had witnessed and participated in the rise of the Nazi cult
*Daily Telegraph, Christmas round up*

The searing experiences of Berliners are brought to life through often deeply morally compromised personal stories
*Financial Times, Christmas round up*